A 2018 study by the Eye Unit of Ghana Health Service revealed that about 270,200 Ghanaians are blind, representing 0.74% Ghanaian population. Records indicate education and training blind people in date back to early 1940s. The Creative Arts involves experimentation interaction with natural environment as a problem-solving tool for national development. encompass Art forms like painting, sculpt...

Autostereograms or SIRDS (Single Image Random-Dot Stereograms) are camou aged stereograms which combine the Julesz random-dot stereogram principle with the wallpaper e ect. They can represent any 3d shape on a single image having a quasiperiodic appearance. Rather large SIRDS can be interpreted in depth with unaided eyes. In the hands of computer graphic designers, SIRDS spread all over the wor...

This paper surveys the field of nonphotorealistic rendering (NPR), focusing on techniques for transforming 2D input (images and video) into artistically stylized renderings. We first present a taxonomy of the 2D NPR algorithms developed over the past two decades, structured according to the design characteristics and behavior of each technique. We then describe a chronology of development from ...

Vibrato is one of the most expressive aesthetic characteristics of singing voice. Indicative of good voice quality is typical of lyrical singing but it is also found in others styles of popular music. Acoustically, vibrato is defined as a long-term periodic modulation of the fundamental frequency. It occurs as a result of the laryngeal muscular system and is comprised of 3 main parameters: rate...

Most currently available three-dimensional surface models of human anatomic structures have been artistically created to reflect the anatomy being portrayed. We have recently undertaken, as part of our Visible Korean studies, to build objective surface models based on cross-sectional images of actual human anatomy. Objective of the present study was to elaborate surface models of the GI tract a...

Same-sex relations, despite their presence throughout history, have for the most part been misunderstood and are only recently beginning to be accepted. Even as these ideas have been explored dramatically, LGBTQ theatre that discusses such topics openly is still a largely new phenomenon. Nevertheless through analyzing these texts as they have developed throughout the centuries, their importance...

Moving out of doors with digital tools and electronic music and creating musically rich experiences is made possible by the increased availability of ever smaller and more powerful mobile computers. Composing music for and in a landscape instead of for a closed architectural space offers new perspectives but also raises questions about interaction and composition of electronic music. The work w...

The debate on Mohsin Hamid's Reluctant Fundamentalist has, over the years, built what Stanley Fish calls an “interpretive community” which dictates how a work should be read and discussed. quite tedious yet all-pervading claim that Hamid, in his novels, concerns himself with globalization, economy, neoliberalism, politics, multiculturalism, identity, whatnot is today so fashionably common among...

Art and design can meaningfully contribute to social change. It shift debates, change perspectives, raise awareness, act upon visible invisible mechanisms of inclusion exclusion different agents occupying the public sphere. In this thematic issue we invited authors relate claim as they preferred: by bringing evidence support it, refute or simply discuss potential benefits harms artistically ins...

The history of art in Russia and China is closely intertwined the XX century, including thanks to creative pedagogical activities Russian artists who found themselves exile. Largely them, Harbin Shanghai became major centers 1920s–1930s. This period characterized by fruitful processes country's culture, but also political upheavals at same time. problem study determine peculiarities perception ...