TilerPro is a web-based software system for building symmetric tiling designs. With TilerPro, the user is able to quickly build and save a large number of aesthetic tiling designs. Graphics generation by TilerPro takes place entirely on the client-side using SVG with program code written in JavaScript. This paper gives an overview of the system.

A QR code is a two-dimensional barcode that encodes information. A standard QR code contains only regular black and white squares, and thus is unattractive. This paper proposes a novel framework for embellishing a standard QR code, to make it both attractive and recognizable by any human while maintaining its scanability. The proposed method is inspired by artistic methods. A QR code is typical...

The artistic style (or artistic movement) of a painting is a rich descriptor that captures both visual and historical information about the painting. Correctly identifying the artistic style of a paintings is crucial for indexing large artistic databases. In this paper, we investigate the use of deep residual neural to solve the problem of detecting the artistic style of a painting and outperfo...

By taking advantage of the advent o f functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) this thesis argues that aesthetics belongs in the domain o f neurobiology by investigating the d ifferent brain processes that are implicated in aesthetic perception from two perspectives. The firs t experiment explores a specific artistic style that has stressed the problem in the relationship between objects an...

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Sidewalks are not a trivial topic. They fundamental element of streets, the main public spaces in urban environments. In modern cities, paving materials mostly artificial. Portugal, stone-paved sidewalks still prevalent and quite characteristic. Walking down street, you do need to lift your eyes off ground know Portugal. nineteenth-century Lisbon, new type pavement was introduced, calçada portu...