artistic and realistic representations and interactions with Big Data Antoni B. Moore School of Surveying, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand [email protected] ABSTRACT This white paper explores abstracted, realistic and artistic approaches to the challenge of representing and interactingThis white paper explores abstracted, realistic and artistic approaches to the challenge of repre...

With the effective image processing tools, the digital image processing technique can be applied to the virtual restoration of artistic paintings. For the restoration of artistic work, digital image processing technique serves many purposes. This paper presents approach for virtual digital restoration of artistic paintings which are suffering from the breaks or cracks. An approach includes dete...

The development of exceptional and unexpected artistic skills at any age must be a matter of curiosity. This can occur among young children with severe learning difficulties, especially if they are autistic. Some examples of these so called idiot-savants are given, and the way in which their brains may function. It is also true that elderly people who suffer from frontotemporal dementia can fin...

Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

We provide a new perspective on the impact of unauthorized copying and copy levies on artistic creation. Our analysis emphasizes three important aspects of artistic markets: the predominance of superstars, the dynamics of talent sorting, and the importance of promotion expenditures. In the short run, piracy reduces superstars’ earnings and market share, and increases the number of niche and you...

ion Abstraction has been heralded as the hallmark of mathematics and computer science, but it is important to isolate abstraction for its fundamental properties, which appear to often be confused with the material which goes into making signs. The concept of abstraction can surface as a reason not to employ more extravagant forms. However, abstraction cannot completely come to the rescue becaus...

ALTERNE (Alternative Realities in Networked Environments) platform aims at providing a high level of integration between various techniques supporting mixed reality, graphics, interaction and behavioral models. This paper focuses on two collaborative aspects the platform provides. First, it contains a virtual object repository, which allows artists to share their ideas and support collaboration...

Vehicle fetishism is a near-ubiquitous cultural attitude in theorizing about the arts. It commonly occurs as a background assumption, if not an explicit belief, that the physical vehicles, by means of which the artistic meaning or content of artworks is communicated, must somehow themselves be integral parts of the relevant artworks. Of course, such a primitivist or magical view about the power...

From art portraits, the observer may derive at least two different hedonic values: The attractiveness of the depicted person and the artistic beauty of the image that relates to the way of presentation. We argue that attractiveness is a property that is predominantly driven by perceptual processes, while the perception of artistic beauty is based predominantly on cognitive processing. To test t...

There has been a lack of discussion concerning virtual reality as an expressive medium. It is essential to emphasise the aesthetic dimension of virtual reality in order to develop the medium as a powerful artistic mode of expression. This thesis examines how head-mounted display-based virtual reality can be used for artistic expression, focussing on the aesthetic pleasures of the medium. Pionee...