the focus of this article is in the area of poetry and film, dealing specifically with the visual potentials of a monumental persian classic epic, that is, firdowsi's shahnameh. in this masterpiece, the visual world is formed out of images which could represent it in many different ways, at times extremely glorified at other times immensely emotional and psychological but always absolutely...

We present an approach to convert a small portion of a light field with extracted depth information into a cinematic effect with simulated, smooth camera motion that exhibits a sense of 3D parallax. We develop a taxonomy of the cinematic conventions of these effects, distilled from observations of documentary film footage and organized by the number of subjects of interest in the scene. We pres...

The relevance of the visual components in narrative is unarguable in conventional media such as cinema or video, but only a small number of research projects have been headed towards a cinematic approach in Interactive Storytelling. While some developments use cinematic ontologies as aids to support the story being told, no real attempts have been made to devise a system that is not only capabl...

Since the computer age dawned on mankind, one of the most important areas in information technology has been that of “decision support.” Today, this area is more important than ever. Working in dynamic and ever-changing environments, modern-day managers are responsible for an assortment of far reaching decisions: Should the company increase or decrease its workforce? Enter new markets? Develop ...

Automatic cinematic generation for virtual environments and games has shown to be capable of generating general purpose cinematics. There is initial work that approaches cinematic generation from the perspective of narrative instead of low level camera manipulation. In our work, we further extend this idea to take into consideration a model of user memory. Models of reader comprehension and mem...

We present a two-assignment series that developed students’ sociological imaginations and could be done in face-to-face or online course. The used the Sociological Images blog own visual images (e.g., photographs) to meet course learning goals: (1) link theories concepts social events/trends, (2) apply these ideas real life by identifying sociologically relevant daily life, (3) communicate anal...

Inquiry into the nature of mental images is a major topic in psychology where research is focused on the psychological faculties of imagination and creativity. In this paper, we draw on the work of L.S. Vygotsky to develop a cultural-historical approach to the study of imagination as central to human cognitive processes. We characterize imagination as a process of image making that resolves "ga...

In previous work we argued that cinematic language may provide insights into the construction of narrative coherence in hypertext, and we identified in the shot juxtaposition of rhetorical patterns the source of coherence for cinematic discourse. Here we deepen our analysis, to show how the mechanisms that underpin cinematic rhetorical patterns are the same as those providing coherence in writt...

Corresponding Author: Suhaib Kh. Hamed Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT), Faculty of Information Science and Technology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Selangor, Malaysia Tel:0060-1139044355 Email: [email protected] Abstract: In spite of great efforts that have been made to present systems that support the user’s need of the answers from the Holy Qu...