BACKGROUND Two professional painters experienced significant changes in their art as the main consequence of minor stroke located in the left occipital lobe or thalamus. METHODS The features of this artistic conversion were analysed on the basis of extensive neurological, neuropsychological, and psychiatric evaluations. RESULTS Both painters, initially unaware of the artistic changes, exhib...

The prints of Sebald Beham and his brother Barthel were the subject of a recent exhibition titled Gottlosen Maler at the AlbrechtDűrer-Haus in Nuremberg (March 3–July 3, 2011), where this essay was included in the exhibition catalogue in German. Revised and expanded for publication in this journal in English, the essay addresses Beham’s biography and historiography and argues that Beham should ...

This paper presents a method for painting texture interactively on a 3D model. Unlike some previously published methods, the technique presented here does not require a grid topology and does not require a dense mesh. The resolution of the texture map produced is independent of the density of the geometry. We also discuss the application in a 3D application of various brushes traditional to 2D ...

An online Ramsey game (G, H) is a game between Builder and Painter, alternating in turns. In each round Builder draws an edge and Painter colors it either red or blue. Builder wins if after some round there is a monochromatic copy of the graph H, otherwise Painter is the winner. The rule for Builder is that after each his move the resulting graph must belong to the class of graphs G. In this ab...