This paper seeks to examine closely the influence of the poet Ovid’s texts – primarily the Metamorphoses and Fasti – on three of the most well-known sculptures by Renaissance sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. After providing a brief history of Bernini’s life and the cultural context in which he began his sculpting career, the study examines, in order, the works Daphne and Apollo, The Rape of Prose...

A set of modular 2-manifold surface components has been designed that allows the assembly of free-form geometrical sculptures representing single-sided or double-sided surfaces ranging from genus 2 to genus 22. The paper describes the interplay between parameters that define the overall symmetry of the whole structure and other parameters that define the geometry of the individual modular compo...

Inspired by the work of Eva Hild, I have developed some auxiliary CAD programs and design processes that make it easier to model her undulating free-form sculptures on a computer, so that similar looking maquettes can be fabricated on a 3D printer. A special focus has been placed on trying to make single-sided 2-manifolds in a similar style.

Objective: To examine the association between anxious school refusal and truancy and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of children and adolescents using a descriptive rather than etiological definition of school refusal. Method: Data from eight annual waves of structured psychiatric interviews with 9to 16-year-olds and their parents from the Great Smoky Mountains Study were analyzed. ...