abstract since ancient time clothes has been integrated into human life, though this is the 1960s and after when clothes have been described as an artistic concept. nowadays, clothes in addition to their traditional functions including protection, coverage and beauty have found communicative function as well. since 1960s, artists have benefited from such a powerful tool presenting their desired...

Contributors to Encounters 23, 2022

Renaissance artists discovered methods for imaging realistic depth on a two dimensional surface by re-inventing linear perspective. In solving the problem of depth depiction, they observed how shadows project and volumes flatten in nature. They investigated how controlled illumination projects volumes onto walls, exploring the phenomena long before physical optics, such as the camera, existed. ...

.......Welcome to the 2012 Top Picks issue of IEEE Micro, featuring the best papers published at top Microrelated conferences in 2011. We moved Top Picks to the third issue of 2012 to allow more time for consideration of papers published late in 2011, such as at the Micro conference. Guest Editors Paolo Faraboschi and T.N. Vijaykumar have done an outstanding job in all facets of putting togethe...

Artists may be exposed to a variety of potentially noxious materials. The modern techniques they use imply exposure to environmental hazards. Occupational health was evaluated in individuals engaged in different arts such as sculpture, painting, printmaking, restoration photography, glass-work and ceramics, because of exposure to toxic chemicals in art materials, tools and methods used in their...

Our perception starts with the image that falls on our retina and on this retinal image, distant objects are small and shadowed surfaces are dark. But this is not what we see. Visual constancies correct for distance so that, for example, a person approaching us does not appear to become a larger person. Interestingly, an artist, when rendering a scene realistically, must undo all these correcti...