A plaster statue is an object created from a mold made from a stone statue, for example, and into which plaster is poured and hardened. The delicate shape is lost, however, during the molding process, and an issue arises in that the plaster statue has a smoother shape than does the original statue. Consequently in this research, by applying a sharpening filter to the 3D shape data of a plaster ...

in view of the geopolitical statue of caucasus in the region and the world and domestic problems of caucasus region, we face different and sometimes contradictory forces and interests in the region. and political, economic, security, cultural, and… developments are result of interaction between these different and sometimes contradictory forces and interests.

An augmented reality (AR)-based guidance system for use in indoor artistic-statue exhibitions is proposed to guide a visitor to find and appreciate statue artworks. For statue recognition, a skillful method of exhaustive matching of statue-image features is proposed, which “learns” each statue by capturing its images from different directions to construct a database, and recognizing each statue...

1. I agree with Professor Medina that identity is relative to fields in such a way that whenever X and Y are identical, they are always identical in some respect and their being identical in this way does not preclude their also being different in other respects. This statue may be the same lump of clay I saw in your workshop yesterday but not the same statue I saw, since it hadn’t yet been sha...

Monists about material constitution typically argue that when Statue is materially constituted by Clay, Statue is just Clay. Pluralists about material constitution deny that constitution is identity: Statue is not just Clay. When Clay materially constitutes Statue, Clay is not identical to Statue. I discuss three familiar puzzles involving grounding, overdetermination and conceptual issues, and...

This paper attacks various arguments for the impossibility of coinciding objects. Distinguishing a temporally relative from an absolute sense of ‘the same’, we see that the intuition, ‘this is only one thing’, and the dictum, ‘two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time’, are individuating things at a time rather than absolutely and are therefore compatible with coincidence. Burke ...

Abstract The statue habit was a defining characteristic of Classical cities, and its demise in Late Antiquity has recently attracted scholarly attention. This article analyzes this process the city Rome, charting decline abandonment practice setting up free-standing statues between end 3rd c. mid 7th CE. Focusing on epigraphic evidence for new dedications, it discusses nature terms differences ...