Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination

The great contrarian: John Ruskin.

John Ruskin (1819–1900) occupies an interesting position on the map of scholarship. He was essentially a critic who became an undisputed opinion leader in matters of art and architecture in his time. He was nearly forgotten for several decades. Only toward the end of the 20th century did his contribution begin to be reevaluated. Ruskin was born in London and studied in Oxford from 1836 to 1842,...

Biomedical illustration: From monsters to molecules

From Local to Global Illumination and Back

The following being musings about illumination problems and illumination answers, more particularly about the evolution and the interplay between local and global illumination concerns.

Text-to-Video: Story Illustration from Online Photo Collections

We present a first system to semi-automatically create a visual representation for a given, short text. We first parse the input text, decompose it into suitable units, and construct meaningful search terms. Using these search terms we retrieve a set of candidate images from online photo collections. We then select the final images in a user-assisted process and automatically create a storyboar...

The Right to Excellence Illumination and Human Rights

In the classical Greek thought, the notion of “right” was concomitant with the “truth”. In the modern era, however, the notion of “right” became intertwined with the primacy of   “possessive individuality”. This primacy was, however, from the outset intellectually challenged. In the light of challenges posed, and by invoking the commonalities between Shahaboddin Suhrawardi and Martin Heidegger,...