Volumetric Particle Modeling. (May 2007) Brent Michael Dingle, B.S., Bradley University; M.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. John Keyser This dissertation presents a robust method of modeling objects and forces for computer animation. Within this method objects and forces are represented as particles. As in most modeling systems, the movement of objects is driven by phys...

È.rìn-Ò. ṣun, a developing town in Ò. ṣun State renowned for its traditional culture, is home to families of practicing bàtá and dùndún drummers and masquerade dancers. Since the 1960s, È.rìn-Ò. ṣun artists have collaborated artistically and intellectually with European and American artists and scholars. This chapter illustrates the concept of strategic collaboration: the art of occupying and p...

We explored the hypothesis that an enhanced local processing style is characteristic of both art and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by examining local and global processing in savant artists with ASD. Specifically, savant artists were compared against non-talented individuals with ASD or mild/moderate learning difficulties (MLD), as well as artistically talented or nontalented students, on the ...

Alan Turing (1912–1954) has been increasingly recognised as an important mathematician who, despite his short life, developed mathematical ideas that today have led to foundational aspects of computer science, especially with respect to computability, artificial intelligence and morphogenesis (the growth of biological patterns, important in mathematical biology). Some of Turing’s mathematics an...

This symposium is a venue for discussing the implications of embodied cognition research for mathematics and computing education. Our goal is to bring five themes together that we think are complementary in understanding what embodiment holds for math and computing education: (1) Empirical studies: Behavioral, neuroscience, and neuropsychological work on sensorimotor groundings of higher-cognit...

This chapter examines the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead for evolutionary music and art. Evolutionary computing methods have enabled new modes of creative expression in the art made by humans. One day, it may be possible for computers to make art autonomously. The idea of machines making art leads to the question: what do we mean by 'making art' and how do we recognise and acknowle...

This essay revisits Othello’s jealousy to detail the politico-theological significance of this dramatic affect. In Hebrew Bible, maintains a covenant between God and holy nation. When Pauline teaching defines marriage as an index Christ’s love, redefinition promises replace exclusivity with supposedly universal truth. Yet persists reveal clash individual realities corporate truths. Jealousy per...

This study reviews our understanding of the materiality coastline, considering it as a function post-modern ecology and drawing from narratives Anthropocene. It redresses theoretical ontological understandings archaeologists, geographers, historians creative artists at unique urban coastal setting. In doing so, responds to work Ϸóra Pétursdóttir in her 2018 analysing ‘Drift’ tensions found with...

The problem of the present study was defined as follows: What personality characteristics were predictors emotion understanding and self-esteem in students visual arts high schools general education schools. problems discussed this article have important implications for effective functioning artistically gifted youth school environment optimization their development various areas activity. Stu...