Implicit painting is a non-photorealistic rendering method for painting implicitly represented CSG solids. The method is based on the fact that when a difference equation is applied to a set of particles these particles will move in 3D space. We view the motion of the particles as the motion of the hands of several painters and the trajectories of the particles as long unbroken brush strokes, o...

BACKGROUND Two professional painters experienced significant changes in their art as the main consequence of minor stroke located in the left occipital lobe or thalamus. METHODS The features of this artistic conversion were analysed on the basis of extensive neurological, neuropsychological, and psychiatric evaluations. RESULTS Both painters, initially unaware of the artistic changes, exhib...

A case-control study was conducted to test the hypothesis that paternal occupation is a risk factor for Wilms' tumour in offspring. Occupations associated with exposure to lead (Pb) and to hydrocarbons were examined by computing odds ratios, all of which were greater than unity but not by a statistically significant margin. When painters were considered separately, children whose fathers had be...

We present a novel unsupervised approach to mapping artrelated instances (such as music artists and painters) to subjective categories like genre and style. We base our approach on co-occurrences of the two on the web, found with Google. The co-occurrences are found using three methods: by identifying the search engine counts, by analyzing Google excerpts found by querying patterns and by scann...

The course and outcome of the pregnancies of the wives of 80 spray painters and 80 electronics workers were recorded from birth registers, hospital records, and a questionnaire. The two groups of men had previously been subjected to psychological, psychiatric, neurophysiological, and neurological tests. The variables recorded were occupational exposure to solvents; number of births, ectopic pre...

The work of painters from the twelfth fifteenth centuries is often discussed in the context of a short treatise on painting materials and methods written by an artist, Cennino Cennini, around 1390. His manual guides us to knowledge of how artists worked, but this very useful text tends to constrain our understanding of the potential richness and diversity of materials available to artists. Micr...

"Pieter Bruegel was the most perfect of his century," said Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius eulogizing his friend, who "was taken from us while still in his full manhood." Both men observed and delineated new and original angles of reality, Ortelius in his great atlas (Theater of the World), Bruegel in his paintings, which described, in astonishingly modern terms, the lives ...

In man the study of the harmful effects in bone of internally deposited radioactive material has been made either on subjects who have been given radium compounds internally for medicinal purposes, a practice now discontinued, or on subjects who have accidentally ingested-radium, and sometimes mesothorium, while working as luminous-dial painters. The use of self-luminous paints for watch dials ...