Artworks, especially painting, are the second language or visual of an artist for expressing their ideas. Therefore, through this paper, writer tried to examine a painting entitled, “The Chronicle Devotion” using Charles Sanders Peirce Semiotics approach (Icons, Indexes and Symbols). The results study show that studied is form artists representing spirit heroism legendary sacrifice originating ...

In this article, the author tests a novel analytical approach, confining himself to necessary historical contextualisation of approach and its objects. By applying it celebratory aesthetic activity non-clerical community in late modernity, is possible discern sincere sophisticated commitment sacred cultivation mysticism that vivifies deeply traditional forms sacred. Referring Hans Belting’s the...

This work describes a computer model that generates visual narratives. It is part of a research project on narrative generation. A visual narrative is defined as a sequence of pictorial-scenes; each scene contains characters, locations and symbols representing dramatic tensions. A computer generated plot is transformed into a visual narrative by converting each textual action into a pictorial s...

This paper overviews audiovisual performance systems that form the basis for my recent collaborations with improvising musicians. Simulations of natural processes, such as fluid dynamics and flocking, provide the foundations for “organic”looking movement and evolution of abstract visual components. In addition, visual components can morph between abstract non-referential configurations and pre-...

To analyze the rules that govern communication between eye and brain, visual responses were recorded from an intact salamander retina. Parallel observation of many retinal ganglion cells with a microelectrode array showed that nearby neurons often fired synchronously, with spike delays of less than 10 milliseconds. The frequency of such synchronous spikes exceeded the correlation expected from ...