We report the most recent advances in The Painting Fool project, where we have integrated machine vision capabilities from the DARCI system into the automated painter, to enhance its abilities before, during and after the painting process. This has enabled new art projects, including a commission from an Artificial Intelligence company, and we report on this collaboration, which is one of the f...

Nanoparticles O C TO B ER 2 01 2 The potential level of exposure to dust of manufactured nanoparticles varies considerably depending on the type of nanoparticle powder handled in the production. Addition of nanoparticles to paint, lacquer and plaster may change the amount of dust particles generated during sanding of these materials. In contrast, the particle-size distribution of the sanding du...

The lacquer scabbard of a bronze sword dating from the Warring States (476–221 BCE) and excavated Ba tomb Lijiaba site (Chongqing, southwest China) was characterized by multidisciplinary approach including microscopy, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM-EDS), Raman spectroscopy pyrolysis–gas chromatography/mass (Py-GC/MS). Pyrolysis-comprehensive two-dimension...

Several organic solvents (OSs) are potent carcinogens among population at risk. Their genotoxicity have important implications for cancer production. Genotoxicity could be related to lipid peroxidation with decrease of endogenous body antioxidants. This work included 27 car spray painters exposed to a mixture of mainly aromatic OSs and a comparable group of 27 males. For both groups, chromosoma...

Our laboratory is constructing a painter robot. The first step in painting is to extract desirable feature lines such as silhouette and boundary lines, which represent the object to be drawn. For this purpose, this thesis proposes a system that extracts feature lines from a textured 3D polygonal model. First, the system builds a textured 3D model of the target object from multiple cameras using...