Piero Della Francesca's "Resurrection"

Piero della Francesca's coral pendants: the hidden bronchial anatomy.

To cite: Ambrogi V. Thorax 2014;69:1161. During the Renaissance, painters frequently used to hide human anatomies inside their artworks. Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) in two paintings represents the infant Jesus with a necklace of coral beads, symbol of beauty and tool for protection against illness or sudden death. Interestingly, the shape of both coral pendants follows a scheme similar to...

3d Modeling and Representation of “ideal City” Painted by Piero Della Francesca

Recently, digital archives for cultural heritage or arts and crafts has received attention from possibility that people can appreciate or experience the archaeological objects, the past space or arts and crafts through the computer at any time and without going to the museum or the spot. In particular, 3D reconstruction and visualization of the lost objects or past word using antique maps or pi...

Preface Piero

Rule-based policy and contract systems have rarely been studied in terms of their software engineering properties. This is a serious omission, because in rule-based policy or contract representation languages rules are being used as a declarative programming language to formalize realworld decision logic and create IS production systems upon. This paper adopts a successful SE methodology, namel...

Piero Gottardi

Resurrection

The golden era of molecular biology has paved the way for us now to tweak, fix, engineer, or even entirely synthesize genomes at levels and scales never seen before. Sequencing technologies continue to improve at exponential rates and have yielded powerful new insights into organisms of the distant past, as well as those that co-inhabit the planet with us. The era of genomics has ushered in the...