The social gradient in health is familiar to many readers of scientific journals as a diagonal line on a graph showing the almost universal and often linear relation between people’s social and economic circumstances and their health. The pathways to and from poverty and poverty’s impact on health, however, have also vividly been represented in paintings, particularly in 19th century Europe. Th...

Statistical analysis of abstract paintings is becoming an increasingly important tool for understanding the creative process of visual artists. We present a multifractal analysis of 'poured' paintings from the Abstract Expressionism and Les Automatistes movements. The box-counting dimension (D 0) is measured for the analyzed paintings, as is the associated multifractal depth DD¼D 0 À D N , wher...

We present a system for painting how the appearance of an object changes under different lighting and viewing conditions. The user paints what the object should look like under different lighting conditions (dark, partially dark, fully lit, etc.) and (optionally) different viewing angles. The system renders the object under new lighting conditions and a new viewing angle by combining these pain...

This report presents an algorithm which matches photographs of paintings to a small database. The algorithm uses a modified SIFT approach to match keypoints between paintings. The algorithm is somewhat invariant to size and rotation, highly invariant to perspective change and noise, and can tolerate multiple images in the field of view. Significant optimization was performed, leading to a typic...

this paper examines the influence of persian words on italian culture and literature. these words entered italian literature before the 14 th century . first , it should be mentioned that the standard italian language has a literary origin that starts in the twelfth century, and the modern standard language was largely shaped by relatively recent events. this european language did not remain un...

Two paintings, made on aluminium support by Silvio Pasotti (among the major exponents of 1960s Italian pop art) were investigated in a totally non-invasive manner to identify materials used artist. Raman spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), visible reflectance and spectrofluorimetry with excitation exploited as molecular analysis techniques, which are particularly suita...

In this contribution preliminary studies on the application of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to absolute depth calibration of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) data in application to revealing stratigraphy of easel paintings are presented. The procedure of in-situ monitoring of LIBS by means of OCT is described. Numerical method developed for precise extraction of the depth of th...

We present a system for painting how the appearance of an object changes under different lighting and viewing conditions. The user paints what the object should look like under different lighting conditions (dark, partially dark, fully lit, etc.) and (optionally) different viewing angles. The system renders the object under new lighting conditions and a new viewing angle by combining these pain...