How to Draw Three People in a Botanical Garden

نویسنده

  • Harold Cohen
چکیده

AARON is a program designed to investigate the cognitive principles underlying visual representation. Under continuous development for fifteen years, it is now able autonomously to make “freehand” drawings of people in garden-like settings. This has required a complex interplay between two bodies of knowledge: objectspecific knowledge of how people are constructed and how they move, together with morphological knowledge of plant growth: and procedural knowledge of representational strategy. AARON’s development through the events leading up to this recently-implemented knowledgebased form is discussed as an example of an “expert’s system” as opposed to an “expert system.” AARON demonstrates that, given appropriate interaction between domain knowledge and knowledge of representational strategy, relatively rich representations may ’ result from sparse information. Figure 1: AARON drawing, 1987 846 Invited Talks From: AAAI-88 Proceedings. Copyright ©1988, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Brother Giorgio is a 12th Century scholar-monk whose task it is to record what is known of the world’s geography, and hc is currently making a map of Australia, an island just off the coast of India. Since an essential part of map-making involves representing the animals of the country, he is making a drawing of a kangaroo. Now Brother Giorgio has never seen a kangaroo. But he understands from what he has been told that the kangaroo is a large rat-like creature with a pouch, and with an exceptionally thick tail. And he draws it accordingly (figure

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

باغ سعاد‌ت‌آباد اصفهان در آینۀ مثنوی گلزار سعادت

In the study of those historic monuments that are more or less ruined, the reflections and images in written historical manuscripts are of utmost importance. In these cases, any succinct references can be valuable and informative regarding to the historical status and architectural configuration and formal composition of these monuments. One of the less studied resources for architectural histo...

متن کامل

Compare the Phenology of Fritillaria, Bellevallia and Muscari species in National Botanical Garden of Iran

Phenology is one of the important issues in ecology, which studies various stages of plant life and its relation with climatic and ecological conditions. Useful information for the production cycle is obtained by evaluating the various stages of native species development. In this research, the phenology of 17 species of Fritillaria, Bellevallia and Muscari in the National Botanical Garden of I...

متن کامل

Chemical components of essential oils of four Eucalyptus L'Her. species cultivated in Kashan’s botanical garden, Iran

Background & Aim: Eucalyptus L'Her. [an aromatic genera of the family (Myrtaceae)] is native to Australia and other tropical species is planted worldwide. The purpose of this study is to extract and identify the essential oils components of four species of Eucalyptus L'Her. cultivated in botanical garden of Kashan, Central Iran. Experimental: Leaves of E. largiflorens</em...

متن کامل

Chemical components of essential oils of four Eucalyptus L'Her. species cultivated in Kashan’s botanical garden, Iran

Background & Aim: Eucalyptus L'Her. [an aromatic genera of the family (Myrtaceae)] is native to Australia and other tropical species is planted worldwide. The purpose of this study is to extract and identify the essential oils components of four species of Eucalyptus L'Her. cultivated in botanical garden of Kashan, Central Iran. Experimental: Leaves of E. largiflorens</em...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1988