Online collections provided by museums are increasingly opened for contributions from users outside the museum. These initiatives are mostly targeted at obtaining tags describing aspects of artworks that are common knowledge. This does not require the contributors to have specific skills or knowledge. Museums, however, are also interested in obtaining very specific information about the subject...

The worldwide obesity epidemic is usually blamed on overeating and underexercising. But limited evidence has suggested a few environmental contaminants may also be playing a role. Now some of the first detailed evidence implicating organotins, a class of persistent compounds containing at least one tin–carbon bond, has been published in the September 2006 Molecular Endocrinology. A team of U.S....

In this paper we review briefly a recently developed chaos indicator: the OFLITT, or more friendly the OFLI2. Using this new indicator we present several sensitivity plots for several classical problems: the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian system and an Extensible Pendulum.

Brush Painting Algorithms Modern image editing applications offer the user a wide range of brushes. With digital brushes a whole new dimension of different brushes has become possible since a digital brush is not limited by the physics of ordinary brushes and paints. At the same time as a digital brush can provide the user with opportunities which are not even to think of using traditional pain...

OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Computer Science The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico July, 2010

“T are two problems in painting” said American artist Frank Stella (b. 1936) when he was still a brash young man. “One is to fi nd out what painting is, and the other is to fi nd out how to make a painting” (1). Stella’s interest in the defi nition of painting may have refl ected late 19thearly 20th-century modernist concerns. More contemporary concerns focus primarily on how to make a painting...

We address the problem of texturing flat surfaces by spray-painting through 3D printed stencils. We propose a system that (1) decomposes an image into alpha-blended layers; (2) computes a stippling given a transparency channel; (3) generates a 3D printed stencil given a stippling and (4) simulates the effects of spray-painting through the stencil.

objectives: in present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. first, among all disabled students, who refer to bizhani center for learning disabilities in arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. thus, the 45 children, divide...

In this work, we examine how the advantages of a digital painting application can be supplemented by distributing its elements among several devices that participate in a device federation. The paint system we describe is a proof-of-concept for an architecture that facilitates the creation of a distributed interaction space. The architecture handles end-user device discovery, distribution of us...