In this paper we discuss different approaches to generate cutaway illustrations. The purpose of such a drawing is to allow the viewer to have a look into an otherwise solid opaque object. Traditional methods to draw these kinds of illustrations are evaluated to extract a small and effective set of rules for a computer-based rendering of cutaway illustrations. We show that our approaches are not...

Increasingly librarians are interested in how the Community of Practice (CoP) framework can provide a more complete picture information literacy practices influenced by situated and social learning. Doctoral students socialized into academy gradually take on identity work scholar their field. As an illustration CoP among doctoral students, author shares data from qualitative study with small gr...

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JBC Vol. 32, No. 1 2006 A medical illustration is the culmination of centuries of medical philosophy, science, and spirituality. Despite similar beginnings, different circumstances surrounding the development of Chinese and Western medical thought eventually led to their divergence. Through an historical comparison, I will attempt to demonstrate how the East and the West came to have such diffe...

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

The age-old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” appears in just about every article on the subject of technical Illustration. And rightly so; the value of illustrations in technical documentation cannot be overestimated. However, for companies having to create technical manuals for their products, the creation of technical illustrations, up to now, has very often been connected to a ser...

hahve khane painting is influenced by naghali (narration) due to the atmosphere of narrating religious and mythical narration stories. examination of sound and illustration adaptation in this type of painting, considering the influence of naghali on ghahve khane painting, is the subject of this research. ghahve khane painting is divided into three categories by content: “martial”, “religious”, ...

This study investigated factors that influenced haptic recognition of tactile pictures by early blind children. Such a research is motivated by the difficulty to identify tactile pictures, that is, two-dimensional representations of objects, while it is the most common way to depict the surrounding world to blind people. Thus, it is of great interest to better understand whether an appropriate ...