Many artists are intrigued by the creative possibilities presented to them by virtual worlds populated with autonomous agents. Artists wishing to explore these possibilities face many obstacles including the need to learn artificial intelligence programming techniques. The Emergence Engine allows artists with no programming experience to create complex virtual worlds. Using behavior based actio...

sociology of the artists is one of the subfields in the sociology of art which studies artists from at least two points of view. first, it studies individual, social and cultural characteristics of artists and the relationships of these factors to their tendencies towards becoming artist. second, it addresses the styles and contents prevailing in the artists’ work in a certain period of time an...

In this paper we introduce a novel and simple image segmentation schemes that are based on combinations of morphological and statistical operations. Mathematical morphology is very attractive for this purpose because it efficiently deals with geometrical features like as size, shape, contrast or connectivity that can be considered as segmentation oriented features. The present paper derives equ...

We present a novel unsupervised approach to mapping artrelated instances (such as music artists and painters) to subjective categories like genre and style. We base our approach on co-occurrences of the two on the web, found with Google. The co-occurrences are found using three methods: by identifying the search engine counts, by analyzing Google excerpts found by querying patterns and by scann...

When viewing a painting, artists perceive more information from the painting on the basis of their experience and knowledge than art novices do. This difference can be reflected in eye scan paths during viewing of paintings. Distributions of scan paths of artists are different from those of novices even when the paintings contain no figurative object (i.e. abstract paintings). There are two pos...

Is it possible to organize artists’ work? This paper presents the original architecture of a collaborative platform that provides a framework for artists to optimize their productivity. Moreover, communities can use this environment in a profitable way and for several purposes such as creation of 3D-persons, e-learning, and software development. We present an approach for building such an open ...

.......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...