Artists frequently imply the shape and form of an object using an accurate natural-science style employing pen-and-ink. This style is useful because it allows for fast-interpretation of images, it can help focus the viewers attention on specific details and can provide extra information about the object(s). Given these positive properties, this style is important to simulate. This thesis presen...

TERENCE DOHERTY, The anatomical works of George Stubbs, London, Secker & Warburg, 1974, F°, pp. ix, 345, illus., £25. For his paintings of horses George Stubbs (1724-1806) is justly renowned. It is also common knowledge that, like the artists of the Renaissance, to perfect his art he practised anatomical dissection. The extent of the latter, however, is revealed for the first time by this super...

the potteries made by the artist painters and sculptors provide relations between their applications and the nature of the ceramic. we are confronting the feeling and the expressions rooting in different horizons, dependent on the history of artistic creations in the 20th century, dealing with the era of gauguin to nabi’s time, the fauvists’ to cobra’s era and picasso’s time to tàpies’s . undou...

It is hypothesized that creativity arises from the self-mending capacity of an internal model of the world, or worldview. The uniquely honed worldview of a creative individual results in a distinctive style that is recognizable within and across domains. It is further hypothesized that creativity is domaingeneral in the sense that there exist multiple avenues by which the distinctiveness of one...

“A a child, they could not keep me from wells,” wrote Seamus Heaney in his version of the Narcissus myth. “I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells / of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.” In countless versions, the ancient myth strikes a universal chord: person sees self, meets death. Ovid told of handsome Narcissus and Echo, the nymph who fell in love when she saw him “chasing frighte...

sky strove “to evoke sound through sight and create the painterly equivalent of a symphony that would stimulate not just the eyes but the ears as well.” One of the great artists of the early 20th century, Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow to well-educated, upperclass parents. From a young age, he exhibited interest in and sensitivity to sound and color. Although he attended draw...

Geo-location data from social media offers us information, in new ways, to understand people's attitudes and interests through their activity choices. In this paper, we explore the idea of inferring individual life-style patterns from activity-location choices revealed in social media. We present a model to understand life-style patterns using the contextual information (e. g. location categori...

Evolution of the Monkey Crouch T. PFAU ET AL. (“MODERN RIDING STYLE IMPROVES HORSE RACING times,” Brevia, 17 July, p. 289) nicely document the effectiveness of the “monkey crouch” riding style on race times and horse-jockey biomechanics. This style produced measurable speed benefits to winning race times at the English Epsom Derby Stakes (1900–1910). The change in riding style across a decade o...

” Niels Henrik Abel (august 5, 1802 april 6 , 1829) ... In 1822, he entered the University of Christiania [today’s Oslo] .. died at twenty-six of tubercolosis. His best known works are: the result that algebraic equations of order five or above cannot in general be solved algebraically; the result that *Abelian equations [I.e., with Abelian Galois group] can be solved algebraically; the theory ...