Contributors to Encounters 23, 2022

Renaissance artists discovered methods for imaging realistic depth on a two dimensional surface by re-inventing linear perspective. In solving the problem of depth depiction, they observed how shadows project and volumes flatten in nature. They investigated how controlled illumination projects volumes onto walls, exploring the phenomena long before physical optics, such as the camera, existed. ...

.......Welcome to the 2012 Top Picks issue of IEEE Micro, featuring the best papers published at top Microrelated conferences in 2011. We moved Top Picks to the third issue of 2012 to allow more time for consideration of papers published late in 2011, such as at the Micro conference. Guest Editors Paolo Faraboschi and T.N. Vijaykumar have done an outstanding job in all facets of putting togethe...

Artists may be exposed to a variety of potentially noxious materials. The modern techniques they use imply exposure to environmental hazards. Occupational health was evaluated in individuals engaged in different arts such as sculpture, painting, printmaking, restoration photography, glass-work and ceramics, because of exposure to toxic chemicals in art materials, tools and methods used in their...

Our perception starts with the image that falls on our retina and on this retinal image, distant objects are small and shadowed surfaces are dark. But this is not what we see. Visual constancies correct for distance so that, for example, a person approaching us does not appear to become a larger person. Interestingly, an artist, when rendering a scene realistically, must undo all these correcti...

The objective of the present paper is to obtain an accurate classification of the textures, which did not introduce undesired merging and to develop a quick, effective and novel algorithm that should be easy to understand and implement. For this the present study advocates a new statistical method based on edge direction movement for classification of textures on the opening of the image. An ed...

in safavid era, ottoman rulers were interested in science and culture, and there were always iranian physicians, astronomers, scholars, artists and poets in their courts. although there were always wars between most ottoman sultans and the safavid kings, they could not prevent iranian culture from influencing that land. at the same time, artists and scholars went to other countries, including t...

In this paper we present MusicRainbow which is a simple interface for discovering artists where colors encode different types of music. MusicRainbow is based on a new audiobased approach to compute artist similarity. This approach scores 15 percentage points higher in a genre classification task than the similarity computed on track level. Using a traveling salesman algorithm, similar artists a...