Illustrative parallel coordinates (IPC) is a suite of artistic rendering techniques for augmenting and improving parallel coordinate (PC) visualizations. IPC techniques can be used to convey a large amount of information about a multidimensional dataset in a small area of the screen through the following approaches: (a) edge-bundling through splines; (b) visualization of “branched ” clusters to...

Concepts from cognitive neuroscience strongly suggest that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a crucial role in the cognitive functions necessary for creative thinking. Functional imaging studies have repeatedly demonstrated the involvement of PFC in creativity tasks. Patient studies have demonstrated that frontal damage due to focal lesions or neurodegenerative diseases are associated with impa...

Due to the recent technological progress, Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) has become a major field of research in both engineering and artistic realms, particularly so in the last decade. The mainstream interests are, however, extremely diverse: challenges are continuously shifting, the evolution of robot’ skills, aswell as the advances inmethods for understanding their environment radically impa...

Higher education represented an important opportunity for the communist regime to train specialized staff in order to strengthen its political control of all the aspects of society, but also to support economic development and the creation of a new society1. Economic development was heavily concentrated on the process of industrialization, which demanded (technical) specialized staff; therefore...

The goal of our research is to enable artists to interact with the world of their imagination; to create art by moving, molding, and shaping virtual forms as if by their own bodies. We show a print that represents a scene painted into virtual reality and tell how the scene and the subsequent print were done. There will be some discussion of the meaning of the work, the intent of the artist and ...

Digital art, as it is known in our time, entered the world of art in the late 1990s when cultural institutions such as museums and art galleries started progressively to include digital art installations in their exhibitions to support initiatives in this field. This was the result of some 50 years of previous experiments and seminal works exploring technology and mechanical devices to render a...

This paper describes the architecture of a new control system and associated scripting language currently under development in a collaboration between computer scientists, engineers, and artists. The system is designed to facilitate the creation of real-time relationships between people and media elements in live performance and installation artworks. It draws on the experience of the UCLA Hype...

The article is an introduction to the research on axiology of space viewed from the perspective of architecture. The chief assumption is the proposition that creation of values in works of architecture is a peculiar means of artistic expression, which – if used in creative arts – leads to cultural development of communities. The result of the research work is a postulate of narrowing down and g...