Can knowledge help viewers when they appreciate an artwork? Experts' judgments of the aesthetic value of a painting often differ from the estimates of naïve viewers, and this phenomenon is especially pronounced in the aesthetic judgment of abstract paintings. We compared the changes in aesthetic judgments of naïve viewers while they were progressively exposed to five pieces of background inform...

Graphic artists have a wide variety of applications to use for digital painting. Although each application has its own solution to enhance the user experience, most of them rely on the same standard feature; a single brush, which is completely dependent on user input for location. Although this is required for a fully controlled painting process, making small changes on this feature yields unpr...

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 ...

Firefly algorithm (FA) is a recently proposed swarm intelligence optimization technique, which has shown good performance on many optimization problems. In the standard FA and its most variants, a firefly moves to other brighter fireflies. If the current firefly is brighter than another one, the current one will not be conducted any search. In this paper, we propose a new firefly algorithm (cal...

Painting style transformation aims to produce a painting in a particular artist’s style from a picture or other paintings. In the previous implementations of example-based painting style transfer, users had to manually select the patches from example patches. It is time-consuming and subjective for a user to select proper patches from a large number of patches. This paper develops a patch-based...

Today industrial automation of spray painting is limited to high part volumes and robot trajectories that are programmed by off-line programming and manual teach-in. This paper presents an approach that uses range image data to obtain the geometry of an unknown part and to automatically generate the robot spray painting trajectories. Laser strip range sensors are installed in front of the paint...