abstract the shahnameh (the book of kings) is a long epic poem written by the iranian poet ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010. this literary masterpiece, which tells the mythical and somehow the historical past of the persian empire, was always been the center of attention of the royal courts, the governors, the cultural people, artists and especially the painters. this book is been more than any...

It is often difficult to attribute works of art to a certain artist. In the case of paintings, radiological methods like X-ray and infra-red diagnosis, digital radiography, computer-tomography, etc. and color analyzes are employed to authenticate works of art. But all these methods do not relate certain characteristics of an art work to a specific artist the artist’s personal style. In order to...

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Though Ottoman miniatures are 2D representations, they carry the potential of conveying an individual’s perception in a more detailed manner as compared to 3D perspective renderings. In a typical 2-vanishing-point perspective; objects / subjects drawn in the foreground hide the ones that are located at their back: This phenomenon is called occlusion. In Ottoman miniatures there is no occlusion,...

Recently there was proposed a novel public key cryptosystem [17] based on non-maximal imaginary quadratic orders with quadratic decryption time. This scheme was later on called NICE for New Ideal Coset Encryption [6]. First implementations show that the decryption is as efficient as RSA-encryption with e = 2 +1. It was an open question whether it is possible to construct comparably efficient si...

jarun namah is an illustrated epopee that belonged to the second half of safavid period and isfahan painting style. it reserved in great britain museum. poetry of the book attributed to qadri shirazi. the story is about a battle between iran and portuguese army in the time of shah abbas i, also describes the battle scenes and courage of safavid commanders army. manuscript contains 10 miniatures...

Research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing has produced especially small and powerful technologies. In this paper we motivate the application of these new technologies in tabletop games that do not rely on special game boards, but are mainly played on custom made miniature landscapes created by the players. We propose the RELATE [1] platform for augmenting miniatures normally used as game p...