While literature often tries to impute mathematical constants into art, this large-scale study (11 databases of paintings and photos, around 200.000 items) shows a different truth. The analysis, consisting of the width/height propor‐ tions, shows a value of rarely if ever one (square) and with majority of images having a proportion larger than one, but less than e.g. the golden ratio. Further‐ ...

Image inpainting automatically restores damaged images and partially removed pictures. Since most inpainting mechanisms inpaint damaged portions in a single layer, this study proposes a multilayer inpainting mechanism by examining how Chinese paintings are drawn in layers. The proposed multilayer inpainting mechanism employs a layer fusion strategy to detect the optimal inpaint combination amon...

This paper addresses the problem of separating the illumination from the reflectance in images and compensating for non-uniform lighting. Recorded images of mural paintings suffer from significant losses in visual quality, compared to the direct eye observation when there are spatial or spectral variations in illumination. The visibility of detail in shadows is poor for recorded images and ther...

illustrated shahnama of shah tahmasp, manuscript of1538ad and one ofsafvidperiodemasterpiece in persian painting,composed of 258 paintings. illustrators for stories painting, sometimes have chosen several time and place of a story to illustrate and have created a namber of works. fereydoun, zahak, siavash, zal, anoushiravan and kaykhosro stories are like this. some of these paintings have image...

This paper describes a decade of work on digital imaging for museums. From 1989 to 1992, the visual arts system for archiving and retrieval of images (VASARI) project produced a digital-imaging system that made color-calibrated images of up to 20 000 20 000 pixels directly from paintings. It used seven colorseparation bands in the visible region, resulting in an average color error of around 1 ...

This paper describes a novel approach for creating hyper-realistic 3D see-through experiences on large-size 2D displays. Viewers moving in front of the display can observe real-time updated ultra-high-resolution images which appear originating from different parts of a virtual 3D world placed behind the display.