In this paper we propose a multi-resolution visualization approach based on a forcedirected algorithm to graphically and hierarchically represent large-scale data sets. Considering the limitations of the human visual cognitive system, it is reasonable to dynamically and interactively extract the most important or user-specified information for representation. To smoothly animate the merging or ...

Contrast has always been appreciated as a significant factor in image quality, but it is less widely recognized that it is a key factor in the representation of depth, solidity and three-dimensionality in images in general, and in paintings in particular. This aspect of contrast was a key factor in the introduction of oil paint as a painting medium at the beginning of the fifteenth century, as ...

One of the main problems with e-learning environments is their lack of personalization (or adaptivity). They cannot offer customisation for the student; they can only offer identical contents to all the consumers. Educational Adaptive Hypermedia (EAH) environments should be the answer to this problem. Adaptive Hypermedia is a relatively new field (starting around the early 1990s), but it alread...

The theatrical code is considered as a way of representing German history in Uwe Timm's novel «Halbschatten». manifestations theatricality the chronotope, organization artistic discourse, and system images are studied. fragmentary nature composition realizes author's perception trauma, which opposed by search for integrity that arises at level image. action implicates image th...

Self-portrait in the art of XVII century acquires an original and complex interpretation painting graphics European masters: increased emotionality, bodily transformations theatricality turn genre into one most interesting to study. Masters often include their own images religious, historical scenes, actively attract language allegories, type «painting a picture», costumed group portraits devel...