Judgments of paintings

Low Light Photography of Paintings

Similarly the tenth century Cholapaintings and 17th century Kayak paintings in the narrow and dark confines of the inner ambulatory of the Brhadisvara temple at Tanjore in South India, have been comprehensively photo-documented. Most of these were completely unseen by scholars and this photography has led to fundamental changes in the understanding of the historical development of painting in I...

Looking Through Paintings

Interactive Evolution of Ant Paintings

In this paper, we present how we use an interactive genetic algorithm to find the best parameters to build an artificial art work according to user’s aesthetic taste. Ants are used to spread colors on a numerical painting and behave with very simple rules to follow and deposit colors. These rules and colors are considered as parameters for the evolutionary process. This work can be considered a...

Spectral Color Reproduction of Paintings

A spectral-based imaging system was constructed consisting of a two-sequential-absorption-filter-CFA digital camera and a seven-color inkjet printer and used to image and print a post-impressionist style painting such that matches were generated for CIE Illuminants D65 and A. Camera calibration was learning based using the Matrix R method. Rendered images for both illuminants were inputted to a...

Protein structure paintings.

When artist Steve Miller met Nobel Laureate Rod MacKinnon at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, MacKinnon was investigating protein structures: specifically, how potassium ions move across cell membranes. Miller became fascinated with the visual tools MacKinnon used to grapple with the problem: 3D computer models of proteins, graphical equations and diagrams in the scientist’s notebook...