To the philologer, the opportunities for comparing dialects and checking pronunciation will be splendid, however few the individual speakers of each dialect may be. I heartily wish your plans success, and if there are any more definite ways in which I can help, let me know, and I will do my best. You will convene, I should think, a Physical and a Philological Committee to organize schemes, 1, f...

Realistic pictures, whether paintings, photographs or rendered images of models, are traditionally obtained using classical perspective projection. Here I focus on pictures of people and discuss evidence suggesting that, for best results, full-length realistic-looking portraits should be produced by combining multiple viewpoints. I test this prediction experimentally and find that full-length p...

In this issue of the Journal, Robert Simon has explored the subject of the place that writing should occupy in the professional life of forensic psychiatrists. We have taken the platform so elegantly constructed by this erudite and prolific author and used it to discuss the quotidian and concrete task of writing the customary forensic psychiatry report. We look to other disciplines for mechanis...

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...

Bu makalenin konusunu 20. yüzyıl öncesi Amerikan portreleri oluşturmaktadır. Öne çıkan portre ressamları ve bazı çalışmaları ile dönemler tanıtılmaya çalışılmıştır. Portre sanatı tanıtılırken tarihsel bağlamda Amerika kıtasında yaşanılan siyasi, sosyal, ekonomik, kültürel oluşum dönüşümler de incelenmiştir. Kolonileşme Dönemi Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemleri arasında, portresi tarz konu bakımından de...

The presentation of portraits emperors and saints in Byzantine art can be compared to theories physiognomy logic put forward by Aristotle his followers. Similar observations have been made about the portal sculptures High Gothic cathedrals, but although ordering images two cases reflected similar patterns thought, particular forms differed each milieu, responding a different relationship betwee...