One important origin of non-photorealistic computer graphics comes from printing technology. Halftoning is a reproduction technique for photography in printing. The continuous tones of the images are represented by fulltone dots of varying size, shape and density. While printing technology brought this to perfection over time, computer graphics researchers developed methods that modified this p...

Tissue engineering promises to replace and repair body organs but has largely been overlooked for artistic purposes. In the last 6 years, the authors have grown tissue sculptures, asemi-living objects,o by culturing cells on arti® cial scaffolds. The goal of this work is to culture and sustain for long periods tissue constructs of varying geometrical complexity and size, and by that process to ...

Developed in the context of virtual environments linked to artistic creation, Egosound was conceived to visualize multiphonic sound space in an egocentric way. Ambisonic algorithms and a graphic editor for trajectories are implemented. An example of artistic project with Egosound is exposed. Parts of the software engine of Egosound are now available for download as external objects for Pure Dat...

INTRODUCTION Migraine is frequent in children. Children's drawings of their symptoms can help to identify it. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of children's drawings to identify migraine in those who suffer from headache. POPULATION, MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated 48 patients aged 5 to 19 years, assisted for headache. In all cases they were asked to draw what happened to them before an...

The present study examined individual differences in artistic preferences in a sample of 91,692 participants (60% women and 40% men), aged 13-90 years. Participants completed a Big Five personality inventory (Goldberg, 1999) and provided preference ratings for 24 different paintings corresponding to cubism, renaissance, impressionism, and Japanese art, which loaded on to a latent factor of over...

OBJECTIVE To describe a contemporary artistic educational program based on photographic cyanotype techniques and to present the results of the program carried out with older people with early dementia. We determined whether these people could participate in the program, their viewpoint about it, and what this program could contribute to their experience. METHOD Twenty-one people diagnosed wit...

What are the problems faced by contemporary artists? By what processes do they solve these problems in real-life? This article presents preliminary results of the second phase of an ongoing project seeking to model the cognitive processes involved in a contemporary artistic practice; this project is being conducted within the artistic creativity as situated problem solving approach. Creativity ...