CulturalNature Arga#2 is an interactive audio-visual installation intended to explore the concept of landscape as a verb (to landscape) questioning and reflecting about the semiotic discourses associated with this concept. The landscape as something natural, static, peaceful, silent, etc. is a semiotic discourse with roots in a past related with the representation of a point of view, not only p...

We argue that visual, analogical representations of mathematical concepts can be used by automated theory formation systems to develop further concepts and conjectures in mathematics. We consider the role of visual reasoning in human development of mathematics, and consider some aspects of the relationship between mathematics and the visual, including artists using mathematics as inspiration fo...

Guo et al. (2011) showed that attractiveness was detectable in peripheral vision. Since there are different types of attractiveness (Rhodes, 2006), we investigated how beauty and cuteness are detected in peripheral vision with a brief presentation. Participants (n = 45) observed two Japanese female faces for 100 ms, then were asked to respond which face was more beautiful (or cuter). The result...

This paper introduces object space procedures for extracting silhouettes, slope lines, and drainage features from digital elevation models (DEMs) to direct the rendering of landform features in the style of pen-and-ink landscape illustrations. Unlike image space procedures which generally extract feature information through 2-dimensional (2D) rendered image processing techniques, object space p...

Psychophysical and physiological evidence shows that sound localization of acoustic signals is strongly influenced by their synchrony with visual signals. This effect, known as ventriloquism, is at work when sound coming from the side of a TV set feels as if it were coming from the mouth of the actors. The ventriloquism effect suggests that there is important information about sound location en...

Mountain snowpacks directly and indirectly influence soil temperature (Tsoil) and soil water content (h). Vegetation, soil organisms, and associated biogeochemical processes certainly respond to snowpack-related variability in the soil biophysical environment, but there is currently a poor understanding of how snow-soil interactions vary in time and across the mountain landscape. Using data fro...

Analytic functions of a complex variable exhibit some of the most striking beauty found anywhere -but in the ages of black-on-white printed textbooks, this facet has been largely inaccessible to all except a few. Needham's recent text "Visual Complex Analysis" clearly demonstrates the power of a visual language as an organizing principle and as a useful tool to develop promising strategies for ...