In this paper, we present a method which gives oil painting effect for color images. In general, oil painting method is a process of painting with pigments that are bound with drying oil. The oil painting is widely adopted for artist who utilizes different oils. The proposed method uses digital painting approach and makes an original image painted with oil. The main purpose of oil painting is t...

This article adds to recent literature in the study of religion and marriage by examining older couples’ use of religion as a cultural repertoire in enduring marriages. The study includes qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 43 married, Christian couples. Couples reported four predominant social contexts that gave sacred meanings to their marriage: prayer, worship services and sermo...

Following Head and Neck Cancer Surgery So Yeon Park, MD; Joong Sik Eom, MD; Jin Seo Lee, MD; Eun-Jeong Joo, MD; Jungok Kim, MD; Infectious Diseases, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Infectious Diseases, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Kangdong Sacred Hea...

Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this work we find that the Iranian nuclear program, a relatively recent development, is treated as sacred by ...

We present a way of rendering painting-like images and sequences by our Stochastic Painting-based SBR technique. We avoid disturbing artifacts by coding the images in a painting-like way. If we code the resulting stroke sequence, than the level of error comes not from the artifacts but from the painting process. For this reason, if we generate high quality paintings, we can transfer the image w...

Many people insist that their commitments to certain values (e.g. love, honor, justice) are absolute and inviolable - in effect, sacred. They treat the mere thought of trading off sacred values against secular ones (such as money) as transparently outrageous - in effect, taboo. Economists insist, however, that in a world of scarce resources, taboo trade-offs are unavoidable. Research shows that...

Nowadays many parts of shipbuilding process are automated, but the painting process is not, because of the difficulty of automated on-line painting quality measurement, harsh painting environment and the difficulty of robot navigation. However, the painting automation is necessary, because it can provide consistent performance of painting film thickness. Furthermore, autonomous mobile robots ar...

1 I N T R O D U C T I O N In order to produce Expert System for Chinese flower and bird paintings, one needs a data base of the painting composition techniques of the painters. The authors are currently studying the recognition of painters' composition as the first step to making this data base. At this stage, the authors were able to determine the similar painting elements and the composition ...

In the article, from standpoint of cultural research, there is an attempt to systematize Christian values saints, which formed basis and artistic projects architecture medieval Chernigiv generalize common European, including Slavic-Ukrainian, distinctive traditions spiritual heritage. They were on pagan mythology, was transformed into world. It passed down generation through oral written cultur...