In what ways is mammalian vision--and in particular, human vision--efficiently adapted to its ecology? We suggest that human visual artwork, which is made for the human eye, holds clues that could help answer this question. Paintings are readily perceived as representations of natural objects and scenes, yet statistical relationships between natural images and paintings are nontrivial. Although...

Two recent studies suggest that natural scenes and paintings show similar statistical properties. But does the content or region of origin of an artwork affect its statistical properties? We addressed this question by having judges place paintings from a large, diverse collection of paintings into one of three subject-matter categories using a forced-choice paradigm. Basic statistics for images...

Two recent studies suggest that natural scenes and paintings show similar statistical properties. But does the content or region of origin of an artwork affect its statistical properties? We addressed this question by having judges place paintings from a large, diverse collection of paintings into one of three subject matter categories using a forced-choice paradigm. Basic statistics for images...

Color rendering indices are used to access the quality of lighting but, in addition to other well-known limitations, are not defined for color deficient observers. We evaluated the quality of lighting for normal and color deficient observers in the context of art paintings by estimating the number of colors they perceive when looking at the paintings. Hyperspectral data from 11 oil paintings we...

tures throughout our history. The paintings at Niaux, Altamira, and Lascaux (Clottes, 1995; Ruspoli, 1986), for example, are known to be about 14,000 years old, but with the recently discovered paintings in the Grotte Chauvet, the origin of representational art appears to have been pushed back even further (Chauvet, Brunel Deschamps, & Hillaire, 1995; Clottes, 1996), to 20,000 years ago if not ...

Ancient paintings are valuable for historians and archeologists to study the humanities, customs and economy of the corresponding eras. For this purpose, it is important to first determine the era in which a painting was drawn. This problem can be very challenging when the paintings from different eras present a same topic and only show subtle difference in terms of the painting styles. In this...

the aim of this article is to analyze representation of women in contemporary iranian painting. as the approach of cultural studies shows, a representation is never a pure reflection of reality; rather, it portrays reality in a specific way in order to reproduce the dominant hidden discourse. therefore, this research aims to decode women’s portrayals in order to discover the hidden ideology in ...

Abstract:Non-oil exports are increased in the measures taken, to reduce Iran's dependence on oil revenues. Creating new business areas in different sectors and unused capacities are fac-tors that make it imperative to pay attention to the development of non-oil exports. Ex-port growth is the key to economic recovery for governments. Among non-oil exports, in many countries of the world th...

Jackson Pollock introduced a revolutionary artistic style of dripping paint on a horizontal canvas. Here we study Pollock’s unique artistic style by using computational methods for characterizing the low-level numerical differences between original Pollock drip paintings and drip paintings of other painters who attempted to mimic his signature drip painting style. Four thousands and twenty four...

We present a system for painting on an object in a view-dependent way. The user creates paintings of the object from various camera positions to produce a texture map which changes depending upon the view direction. The paintings are blended on the object, as opposed to blending the paintings themselves, to ensure that novel views are correctly interpolated. This also produces self-contained mo...