The article is devoted to the motivic analysis of literature. object study linguistic means reflecting components wind in literature, and their identification Lermontov's texts. subject most significant works Lermontov 1831-1841s, including words with semantic component ‘wind'. scientific novelty work lies fact that it attempts identify implementing motif M.Y. poetic prose purpose this determin...

The mathematical distinction between prose and verse may be detected in writings that are not apparently lineated, for example in T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, and Jim Crace’s Quarantine. In this paper we offer comments on appropriate statistical methods for such work, and also on the nature of formal innovation in these two texts. Additional remarks are made on the roots of lineation as a metric...

This paper presents an artistic rendering system for generating 3D images of Chinese paintings using graphics hardware. The user can adjust suitable parameters flexibly to generate different brush styles as his/her hobby, and see rendering results in real time. In this system, we propose a hardware-accelerated method to draw Chinese painting strokes efficiently along visible silhouettes. Three-...

This paper presents an algorithm and its applications for artistic rendering of recorded video data following ideas of non-photorealistic rendering. The proposed algorithm does not only work on a variety of artistic rendering styles for static photography but it can also be applied to the creation of artistic videos. Cartoon-like and comic-like styles are the two artistic styles considered in t...

The results of a computational analysis of all predications, finite and non-finite, in a one-million-word corpus of present-day American English (the "Brown Corpus") are presented. The analysis shows the nature of the syntactic differences among the various genres of writing represented in the data base, especially between informative prose and imaginative prose. The results also demonstrate th...

Based on data from a large-scale experiment with human subjects, we conclude that the logarithm of probability to guess a word in context (unpredictability) depends linearly on the word length. This result holds both for poetry and prose, even though with prose, the subjects don’t know the length of the omitted word. We hypothesize that this effect reflects a tendency of natural language to hav...

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they performed an aesthetic rating task for excerpts of artistic music, popular music and musical note...