RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Human vision is extremely sensitive to equidistance of spatial intervals in the frontal plane. Thresholds for spatial equidistance have been extensively measured in bisecting tasks. Despite the vast number of studies, the informational basis for equidistance perception is unknown. There are three possible sources of information for spatial equidistance in pictures, namely, distances in the pict...

Humans have drawn sequential images as a means of expression throughout history, from cave paintings and frescoes to wall-carvings and tapestries (McCloud, 1993). In contemporary society, we find them most prevalently in comics of the world, and over the past two decades, increasing attention has turned to this communicative system in the cognitive sciences. Earlier work often focused on theory...

The cleaning of textile artefacts and in particular historical tapestries is generally carried out using standard methods. Different procedures, including a new method based on hydro-aspiration mechanism, recently developed by restorers with the aim improving efficiency system, were applied to tapestry belonging lower edge one “Ulysses Stories” series exhibited at Quirinale Palace (Rome). was m...

In recent years, the advances in structural probing in RNAs have led to the development of high throughput experiments that generate vast amounts of data that is not feasible to curate manually. Analogous to the case of high-throughput genome sequencing, there is a need to analyze the structural results via computational methods. In this project, we propose an algorithm based on support vector ...

TAPESTREA is a sound design and composition framework that facilitates the creation of new sound from existing digital audio recordings, through interactive analysis, transformation and re-synthesis. During analysis, sinusoidal modeling and transient detection techniques are used to parametrically extract desired sound templates of different types: sinusoidal events, transient events, and stoch...