A b r a n c h o f N o tre D am e F e d e r a l C re d i t U n ion in L a F o r tu n e Student Center will be t­ ter serve s tuden ts’ needs than the Key Bank office it r e p la c e d , U n ive rs i ty officials said. The move happened in early August, bu t plans for the change began in April. With Key B ank’s l e a s e e x p i r i n g in l a t e J u ly , N o t r e D am e p u t the student cente...

A new scheme for painterly rendering (NPR) has been developed. This scheme is based on visual perception, in particular the multi-scale line/edge representation in the visual cortex. The Amateur Painter (TAP) is the user interface on top of the rendering scheme. It allows to (semi)automatically create paintings from photographs, with different types of brush strokes and colour manipulations. In...

associating certain forms and designs in islamic arts with the promised heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. it is believed that islamic art has been derived from the imagination of the paradise as depicted in holy quran. to express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in islamic arts has been the gardens of h...

After China opened her doors to the world again, I seized the opportunity to organize the University of Minnesota Art and Craft Tour of China, in 1982. When we were in Hangzhou, I visited the China Academy of Fine Arts (Formerly the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts) to negotiate with the leaders of the Academy to establish the very first exchange program in the arts with the University of Minnesot...