Restoration considered as a Destructive Art

Tangible Interfaces for Art Restoration

Few people experience art the way a restorer does: as a tactile, multi-dimensional and ever-changing object. The authors investigate a set of tools for the distributed analysis of artworks in physical and digital realms. Their work is based on observation of professional art restoration practice and rich data available through multi-spectral imaging. The article presents a multidisciplinary app...

Deference Overcome: Courts’ Invalidation of Patent Claims as Anticipated by Art Considered by the PTO

¶1 Courts accord varying degrees of deference to administrative decisions. In the context of patent law, an issued patent is entitled to a statutory presumption of validity that places the burden on the challenger to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the patent’s claims are invalid. The presumption of validity is based, at least in part, on the patent examiner’s consideration of refer...

Graphic Rendering Considered as a Compilation Chain

Graphical rendering must be fast enough so as to avoid hindering the user perception/action loop. Traditionally, programmers interleave descriptions and optimizations to achieve such performances, thus compromising modularity. In this paper, we consider graphic rendering as a compilation chain: we designed a static and dynamic graphical compiler that enables a designer to clearly separate the d...

Momega Considered as a Programming Language

Speech considered as modulated voice

In addition to linguistically coded information, speech conveys necessarily also some paralinguistic information of expressive (affective and adaptive), organic and perspectival kind, but all respective features lack invariant absolute acoustic correlates. According to the Modulation Theory, a speaker’s voice functions as a carrier that is modulated by speech gestures. Listeners have to demodul...