Reading, Writing and Drawing in Relief: The IPO Relief-Drawing Set

Image Analysis for the History of Cartography: Drawing Conclusions from the Evaluation of Pfyffer's Relief

Digital photogrammetry offers effective and accurate procedures for the preservation and inventory of cultural heritage. In case of twoand three-dimensional products of early mapmaking the application of these methods goes far beyond documentation and visualization: it primarily aims at the derivation of new information. This paper reports on conclusions which can be drawn from the quantitative...

Interactive Analytical Shading and Cliff Drawing: Advances in Digital Relief Presentation for Topographic Mountain Maps

In this paper two new and improved methods for digital relief depiction are presented: Interactive analytical shading and digital cliff drawing using fill hachures. Both methods have a long tradition in manual production of mountain maps which has been considered for the implementation of the new software tools. One of the main tasks was the decision to separate between interactive and automati...

OPTi's Algorithm for Drawing the Limit Set

Early differentiation between drawing and writing in Chinese children.

Children under 3½ years of age or so are often thought to produce the same types of scribbles for writing and drawing. We tested this idea by asking Chinese 2- to 6-year-olds to write and draw four targets. In Study 1, Chinese adults judged the status of the productions as writings or drawings. The adults performed significantly above the level expected by chance even with the productions of 2-...

Drawing Connections Across Education: The Freiburg Writing Center Model

A German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akedemischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) visiting position recently brought me to Germany, “the country of poets and thinkers.” Whenever I hear this phrase, which is intended to highlight the prevalence of literary and philosophical discussion there, I nod and add for myself: “...and a place where one likes to regard poets and thinkers as geniuses and wh...