Buzz Baum: The art of cell shape

Buzz Baum: The art of cell shape

T he core genes that regulate cell shape are few in number but highly fl exible in application. This is dramatically illustrated in multicellular animals where, by repurposing these few tools, cells from different tissues assume startlingly distinct appearances. To do this, animal cells must have strong individual preferences for their own shape, says Buzz Baum from University College London. I...

Buzz in the dendritic cell synapse.

Art by Shape Classification

Art by Shape Classification Yi-Zhe Song, David Pickup, Chuan Li, Paul Rosin, and Peter Hall Abstract—This paper shows that classifying shapes is a tool useful in Non-Photorealistic rendering from photographs. Our classifierThis paper shows that classifying shapes is a tool useful in Non-Photorealistic rendering from photographs. Our classifier inputs regions from an image segmentation hierarchy...

The geography of buzz: art, culture and the social milieu in Los Angeles and New York

Social scientists have long sought to understand the cultural production system. Such research elucidates the importance of the social milieu to cultural industries. We capture aggregate patterns of the social milieu and the geographical form it takes. We use a unique data set, Getty Images and geo-coded over 6000 events and 300,000 photographic images taken in Los Angeles and New York City, an...

the aesthetic dimension of howard barkers art: a frankfurtian approach to scenes from an execution and no end of blame

رابطه ی میانِ هنر و شرایطِ اجتماعیِ زایش آن همواره در طولِ تاریخ دغدغه ی ذهنی و دل مشغولیِ اساسیِ منتقدان و نیز هنرمندان بوده است. از آنجا که هنر در قفس آهنیِ زندگیِ اجتماعی محبوس است، گسترش وابستگیِ آن با نهاد ها و اصولِ اجتماعی پیرامون، صرفِ نظر از هم سو بودن و یا غیرِ هم سو بودنِ آن نهاد ها، امری اجتناب ناپذیر به نظر می رسد. با این وجود پدیدار گشتنِ چنین مباحثِ حائز اهمییتی در میان منتقدین، با ظهورِ مکتب ما...