With virtual reality, digital painting on 2D canvases is now being extended to 3D spaces. Tilt Brush and Oculus Quill are widely accepted among artists as tools that pave the way to a new form of art 3D emmersive painting. Current 3D painting systems are only a start, emitting textured triangular geometries. In this paper, we advance this new art of 3D painting to 3D volumetric painting that en...

OBJECTIVE Lock and key factory workers are under the risk of metal pneumoconiosis and occupational asthma. In this cross-sectional study, it's aimed to evaluate the relationship between metal dust exposure and respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function tests of workers in different section of lock and key factory. METHODS 54 male workers (mean age, 32.8 ± 5.4) in a security and safety products ...

House painters are a group of construction workers that commonly develop shoulder musculoskeletal disorders (Stenlund et. al., 2002). A specific disorder typically incurred by these tradesmen is supraspinatus tendonitis. Information regarding shoulder loading during ceiling painting is available. However, no comparable data sets exist for wall painting. Even less information is available on the...

A widely-known painting currently in the Wellcome Library (Iconographic 574912i) depicts an anatomical view of the male human body according to the tenets of classical Indian medicine, or ayurveda. The painting is surrounded by text passages in the Sanskrit language on medical and anatomical topics. In this paper, the Sanskrit texts are identified, edited, translated and assessed. I establish a...

The 13th century Sufi poet Muhammad Rumi [جلال‌الدین محمد رومی] vividly incorporates the image of dance and movement in his lyrics, while Mehlevi Order Islam (popularly known as ‘Whirling Dervishes’) was founded on Rumi’s teachings. Such expressions emotive joy were among favourites my students, when I served Director Inter-Religious Studies at St. Xavier’s College Mumbai. testimony a college s...

UNLABELLED Two paintings, O1 and O2, were split into their luminance (grayscale) components L1, L2 and their color components C1, C2. The two color components, C1, C2, were transparently superimposed. Adding the grayscale of the first painting (= C1 + C2 + L1) looked like the original O1, while adding the grayscale of the second painting (= C1 + C2 + L2) looked like the original O2. CONCLUSIO...

Title of Thesis: ART FOR THE MARKET: COMMERCIALISM IN REN YI’S (1840-1895) FIGURE PAINTING Degree Candidate: Tang Li Degree and Year: Master of Arts, 2003 Thesis directed by: Professor Jason Kuo Department of Art History and Archaeology Ren Yi (1840-1895) was one of the most accomplished and influential Shanghai painters of the late nineteenth century. He produced a great deal of artwork, much ...