Works of art possess what we may call nominal authenticity, defined simply as the correct identification of the origins, authorship, or provenance of an object, ensuring that an object of aesthetic experience is properly named. However, the concept of authenticity often connotes something else, having to do with an object’s character as a true expression of an individual’s or a society’s values...

Pleasing color harmonies appeals to our sense of beauty. Our study is an attempt to explore such aesthetic aspect of color by scientific approach using mathematics and computer. Digital images of fine art, especially images of paintings, are significant resources for computational analysis of color aesthetics. We have developed a software system, specially designed for multilateral color analys...

We present a new image-based stereoscopic painterly algorithm that we use to automatically generate stereoscopic paintings. Our work is motivated by contemporary painters who have explored the aesthetic implications of painting stereo pairs of canvases. We base our method on two real images, acquired from spatially displaced cameras. We derive a depth map by utilizing computer vision depth-from...

Photoelastic isochromatics are computationally reconstructed from the results of finite element analysis. Fast variation of the components of stresses cannot be approximated by a coarse non-adaptive finite element mesh. Visually chaotic and attractive looking pattern of numerically reconstructed photoelastic fringes prevents interpretation of the field of stresses around the regions of concentr...

Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are the main neoplasms of lip and perioral location. We describe different techniques of successful surgical reconstruction, including flaps or simple incision and suture. Using the latter technique satisfactory results were demonstrated, although the incision made removed more than a third of the lip, contrary to the literature. Our goal is to emphasize ...

When a linguist goes in search of “the best” theory in some domain, it is important for him or her to ask “best for what purpose?” Individuals will of course prefer to work with an approach that makes sense to them, one that complements—or at least does not contradict—other assumptions they hold with respect to grammatical theory. This is not to say, however, that “it’s all relative,” that theo...

In order to make it possible for us to easily create a virtual world simply by using our imagination with building blocks and to take photographs of ourselves traveling in the wonder space with a beautiful composition, we have developed a system called “Cypher (Cyber Photographer in Wonder Space)”. With this system, users can blend the real world with a virtual world by using their aesthetic se...

BACKGROUND Elective aesthetic surgeries are increasing in the Iranian population with reasons linked to body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms. This study compared the body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms among invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic surgery patients and a control group. METHODS Data from 90 participants (invasive aesthetic surgery=30 ...