As in statistical physics, the concept of universality plays an important, albeit qualitative, role in the field of comparative mythology. Here we apply statistical mechanical tools to analyse the networks underlying three iconic mythological narratives with a view to identifying common and distinguishing quantitative features. Of the three narratives, an Anglo-Saxon and a Greek text are mostly...

the hoard of kalmakarreh includes hundreds of golden and silver wares that were incidentally discovered by a local hunter in 1987 at a northwest 20 kilometer distance to pol-e dokhtar in province of lorestan. the collection includes a variety of dishes, raytheon, human and animal sculptures, masks, plaques, jewelry,… that belongs to the neo- elamite (first millennium bc). this research led to t...

We present a review of methods for procedurally generating the morphology virtual creatures. include range methods, with main groups being from ALife over art to video games. Even though at times these overlap, clarity we have kept this distinction. By including word virtual, mean that focus on simulation in silico, and not physical robots. also historical perspective, with information such ...

Perhaps the strangest feature of Theocritus’ Idyll 11 is fact that Hellenistic poet selects a mythological creature notorious for its barbarism and inhumanity, in order to validate his thesis poetry only medicine love, most distinctively ennobling human all emotions. The aim this article demonstrate Theocritus has chosen Polyphemus as an exemplum premise because he had been consistently associa...

The paper presents an evaluation method to assess impressions toward a computer-generated creature through human-computer interaction. The aim of our study is to construct a mechanism on a computer to realize empathic interaction between humans and creatures. In this paper, we examine the e ect on personality cognition of a virtual creature when the creature replies with di erent timing to a hu...

Plato, as a poet, employs muthos extensively to express his philosophical dialectical development, so the majority of his dialogues are comprised of muthoi. We cannot separate his muthos from his philosophical thought, since the former has great influence in the latter. So the methodology of this paper is first to discuss the dialogue Theaetetus to find out why he compares Socrates to the Greek...

In Darwin’s world the user creates robot-like graphical creatures with behavior defined by a simple programming language. These creatures migrate around a small two-dimensional grid, each according to its simple program created by the user. The GUI application that controls and displays the location of these creatures must interpret the program instructions supplied in a simple text file for ea...