Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

We develop a method to automatically segment font’s glyphs into set of overlapping and intersecting strokes with the aim generating artistic stylizations. The segmentation relies on geometric analysis glyph’s outline, its interior, surrounding areas is grounded in perceptually informed principles measures. Our does not require training data or templates applies large variety input languages, wr...

byzantine iconography, due to the theoretical content ruling on it, has provided a close and fundamental link with christian theology and the resolutions ruling on it, especially the most fundamental ones, namely incarnation of word in the form of picture. however, this artistic form has been able to show a good reflection of many aspects of the social life and even the popular beliefs of its s...

t in islam world, writing and scribing koran has been always a very important issue. professional  scribers and calligraphers of koran were in the acme point of this process. scribing diversity as  well as different styles of writing divine words does not contradict with uprightness in recording  koran words so that in addition to observing this principle, great calligraphers have tried to  scr...

Imaging Novecento is a native mobile application that can be used to get insights on artworks in the “Museo Novecento” in Florence, IT. The App provides smart paradigms of interaction to ease the learning of the Italian art history of the 20 century. Imaging Novecento exploits automatic approaches and gamification techniques with recreational and educational purposes. Its main goal is to reduce...