Artistic Appearance Research Articles

Мотив отправления героя, рожденного от медведя, в сказочной традиции тюрко-монгольских народов

Introduction. The issues of typology are becoming increasingly significant in the context of expanding interethnic communicative ties, such as folklore, cultural, social ones, etc. Many fairy-tale plots, motifs – moving from one tradition, country to another, from people to people, developing more and more versions, changing their artistic appearances depending on new environments of their existence – retain their nuclear bases, which facilitates the formation of certain plot types. At the same time, these key elements do not function quite typically in fairy-tale traditions of different nations. Goals. The article contains a comparative study of motives for the expulsion of a hero who has broken with the past and taken up arms against his zoomorphic parent, but during the socialization faces certain difficulties that force him to leave the community. The paper analyzes twelve fairy-tale samples of Turko-Mongolic peoples with the typical plot ‘son of the bear’, determines the ‘reasons’ and ‘goals’ of exiling the hero from society, traces the essential variability, ‘inconstancy’, and ‘instability’ of motives as an element of the fairy tale plot. Methods. The work employs the structural-typological method of V. Propp, turns to key comparative research positions that make it possible to identify analogies and differences in various national traditions, uses certain techniques of the structural-semantic methodology developed by B. Kerbelite. Conclusions. The ‘inconstancy’, ‘fuzziness’, and variability of motives are manifested in details of the hero’s actions, reflecting the national specificity and confirming the law of ‘mobility’ of peripheral elements of the motif.

Trends in the development of the city’s mural in the context of globalization

As a result of the globalization processes taking place in the world, the question becomes the creation of a universal culture that would be based on global interaction. Cultures and civilizations enter into a dialogue that becomes an impetus for their acquaintance and interpenetration. Globalization also affects the development of visual arts. Muralism, as the art of public space, is a vivid indicator of the peculiarities of the changes that take place in the context of intercultural dialogue. The influence of globalization processes on the murals of the city of Kyiv is analyzed. The conditions under which intercultural communication of representatives of different cultures, which contribute to the artistic space of the capital, is determined. The problems, which arise in connection with the active appearance of foreign artist’s mural in Kiev, are revealed, and ways of overcoming them are offered.

Innovative technologies of sculptural and applied activities in bachelor-architects training

The environment architectural and artistic appearance forms interrelations with the buildings cultural space organization, the sculpture and sculpture compositions presence problem in the urban environment perception are considered. The architecture future masters’ creative development by means of sculptural and applied activity is analyzed.

Helical Extrusion Process of General Polygonal Section Shapes through Curved Dies

Practically, the helical products used as a mechanical part to satisfy the needs of mechanical strength and artistic appearance. In addition, during recent 5 years it used to produce an ultra-fine grain metal structure. However, there are very little works regarding this type of extrusion so far. This work proposed a new formulation for helical deformation zone to produce general helical polygonal shapes through a streamlined die that are usually made by hot extrusion through taper die. The general die surface was represented analytically. The velocity and strain rate fields are derived depending on the volume constancy and the velocity boundary conditions. The upper bound forming pressure was obtained for various frictional conditions, area reduction, helix angle, and die length. The results show that the axis of the product does not rotate through the helical extrusion. The peak value of the strain rate is located close to the die outlet and decreases as the helix angle increases. The optimum die length becomes high as the helix angle increases. The forming pressure increases with increasing helix angle, area reduction, factor of friction, while decreases when the number of sides increases. The theoretical results were verified with previous work of zero twist and showed completely compatible. A finite element solution was done using hardening material model to verify the analytical results and metal flow and to examine the strain and stress fields in the product.

Художественные особенности современной высотной архитектуры Шарджи

В статье изложены некоторые актуальные аспекты художественного развития архитектуры современных высотных зданий Шарджи (Объединенные Арабские Эмираты). Показаны различные социально-культурные и по­литические факторы, оказывающие существенное влияние на формирование современной высотной градостроитель­ной структуры столицы эмирата. Определены основные черты/приёмы композиционной организации новых вы­сотных объектов Шарджи, определяющих сегодняшний художественный облик города. Выявлены характерные региональные/национальные особенности современной высотной имиджевой застройки Шарджи, а также отражены основные образные темы её художественного развития. Показано, что амбициозная мотивация является мощным импульсом возникновения и реализации грандиозных и дорогостоящих высотных градостроительных проектов в столице эмирата. Анализ художественных особенностей имиджевых высотных объектов Шарджи произведён на основе оригинального авторского фотоматериала, который ранее не публиковался.

“Two Birds with One Stone”: Transmedia Serialisation in <em>Twin Peaks</em>

“Two Birds with One Stone”: Transmedia Serialisation in <em>Twin Peaks</em>

توظيف التراث في أدب الطفل في الجزائر:, أساطير من بلاد البربر لتراي محمد فخر الدين أنموذجا

Heritage Is The Repository Of The Nation's Thought, Its Culture And Literature, As Well As The Link Between Its Generations. Recently, Heritage Has Emerged As A Problematic Issue In Various Fields, In Various Fields Of Knowledge, And The Issue Of Discussion Is Being Deliberated In Many Ways, Including The Artistic Aspect Of How To Use The Heritage In Its Artistic Appearance, As An Effective Tool In The Debate Of Modern Ideas And Modern Topics, And It Becomes More Important, Accurate And Sensitive When It Comes To The Use Of Heritage In The Literature Of The Child Because It Is A Complex Educational And Technical Process. Keywords Heritage , Child Literature , Algeria , Myths , Berber

Techniques to Detect Modified Video

In today’s multimedia world, billions of photographs and videos are generated each day. Of these, about 30,000 are obtained by the U.S. government for law enforcement and intelligence purposes. These could be photos and videos of people, including child pornography, that are of interest to the FBI, videos from surveillance cameras, or photos and videos obtained from foreign adversaries that may be a threat to the United States. Material may also be multimedia submitted to news services or posted to the internet that portray world events that could affect decisions made by our leadership. Of these images or videos, some could have been altered to improve the artistic appearance or storytelling aspects of the material, but some of the alterations may have been done to change the narrative to influence events, spread false information, or provide misdirection. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has begun a multiyear program to automate the detection of modified videos and images called Media Forensics (MEDIFOR). The details of this program are beyond the scope of this paper, but the program is referenced to illustrate the seriousness of this problem. This paper will describe some of the tests that have been done manually through the years to identify falsified material without the aid of the technology that is now being developed for the MEDIFOR program. <disp-quote xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> This paper will describe some of the tests that have been done manually through the years to identify falsified material without the aid of the technology that is now being developed for the MEDIFOR program. </disp-quote>

Architectural and Artistic Design of Wooden Iconostases in New and Restored Temples

During various periods of the modern Russian history, religious architecture was viewed from different angles - at first, as a valuable fragment of a culture that had gone into oblivion, later - as a living tradition sprouting from ancient roots to the present and requiring reunification with it. Therefore, despite the obvious elaboration of the topic, the appeal to it does not lose its relevance turning in different facets of its aspects. The iconostasis is the most important architectural element of the church interior, a small likeness of the temple of heaven and earth. The planned destruction of iconostases in the Soviet era, violation of traditions, connections, continuity, lack of basic information on design, construction and technology of their production makes the study of wooden iconostases and the principles of their restoration and re-creation relevant and important for both theorists and practitioners of architecture, as well as restoration workshops. When reconstructing the monuments of the temple architecture, the architectural style is not always observed, therefore, an architectural and artistic appearance of a monument is violated. Besides, during the monument reconstruction the traditional features of the region in which the temple was located are not taken into account. This factor is the most important one because each region has its own traditional school of iconostases manufacturing and temples building. This article presents the results of the study on the design of the wooden iconostasis of the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin on the lower floor of the Savior’s Transfiguration Temple (1894), in the NizhneSinyachikha Museum Reserve taking into account regional peculiarities.

Multifunctional design of footwear for hot environment condition

For some time design of a new product is not connected only with aesthetic, artistic appearance but moreover with functionality and engineering (from rightful selection of materials, construction, and technological concept to prototyping). One good example of this is design of multifunctional footwear as well as hiking footwear, footwear for soldiers, police officers, first responders etc. All mentioned kinds of footwear have lot of specific requirements to fulfil starting from maintaining and enhancing mobility to maximizing protection and eliminating or minimizing the risk for the wearer. Therefore, designing appropriate footwear represents a great challenge not only for designers but for engineers as well. Having that entire in mind few years ago, Faculty of Textile Technology University of Zagreb started the research with the aim to develop 21st century multifunctional footwear for e.g. military, police, first respondents or any special human forces for different weather environment. The paper presents how it was done in the case of boots for hot environment conditions

Facile dip-coating method to prepare micro-perforated fabric acoustic absorber

Fibrous materials have been extensively used in noise reduction due to its good acoustic absorption properties and artistic appearance. Nevertheless, the acoustic absorption coefficients of woven fabrics are relatively poor in low frequency. In this study, waterborne polyurethane solution was taken to coat the woven fabrics. The results indicated that coated woven fabrics exhibited good acoustic absorption coefficients in low and middle frequency. Furthermore, the experimental values were measured by impedance tube and further compared with Maa's model. It has been found that coated woven fabrics exhibited the micro-perforated panel acoustic absorption mechanism. Dip-coating method is effective to improve the acoustic absorption properties of woven fabrics at low frequency range.

Science, art and responsibility: the scientific and social functional changes of a 500-year history of botanical gardens. I. Artistic appearance

Science, art and responsibility: the scientific and social functional changes of a 500-year history of botanical gardens. I. Artistic appearance

Bureaucracy as a Necessary Evil: Representations of the Corrupt Bureaucrat in the Caricatures Published in the Romanian Press in the Late 1940s and 50s

The Romanian communist regime used the press and the new centralized and controlled media system as the main propaganda tool, both to manipulate information, and to shape the beliefs, mentalities and behaviours. In this complex and mix of ideological instruments, an interesting place is occupied by the caricature. The drawing was used as an easier form to manipulate and which, through its artistic appearance, touch the emotional sphere, so it was considered as being more effective by having a stronger effect than the written texts. One of the subjects of the caricatures in the 50's, the bureaucrat, occupies a distinct place, being seen as a necessary evil, which must be controlled. Although it is placed next to the other enemies of the regime and considered corrupt, the bureaucrat is acknowledged as part of the administration and there is a constant struggle to control and to adapt it to the requirements of the regime, by constant criticism. The study is centred on a qualitative analysis of caricatures published in the late 1940s and during the 50s in the ”Urzica” magazine and in the newspapers (”România Liberă” and ”Informația Bucureștiului”) used for propaganda.

Education Genres Animated Poster in the Second Half of the 20th Century

After WWII the genre of the animated poster was predominantly presented as advertisment films. The movie posters imagery in the 1950s tended to have an illustrative and spatial-pictorial artistic propensity. Grotesque and satire gave way to the dominance of realistic images, and the artistic design had gained coloration and splendor, creating the image of a cheerful world, affluence and prosperity. Films with propaganda and ideological orientations appeared along with the advertisement films, as the political and social poster developed. A special role in the poster genre development was played by the emergence of television as a major customer and distributor of this product. Unlike Western animation, the production of advertisement and social film-posters in the USSR was a state tool of the planned economy. Animated posters played an important role in the formation of new social strategies, behavior patterns and consumption. As a result, in the animated posters of the Soviet period, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, a didactic tone and an optimistic pathos in the presentation of the material dominated. The stylistics of film-posters changed in the 1960s. Their artistic image was characterized by conciseness and expressiveness, inclination towards iconic symbolism, and the metaphoric and graphic quality of the imagery. The poster aesthetics influenced the entire animation development in this period. The development of advertisement and social posters continued in the 1970s-1980s. The clipping principles of the material presentation began to develop in the advertisement poster, however, in the social and political poster there was a tendency towards narration. Computer technology usage in animation and the emergence of the Internet as a new communicative environment contributed to a new stage in the development of the animated poster genre. Means of expression experienced a qualitative upgrade under the influence of digital technologies in animated posters. While creating an animated posters artistic appearance the attraction and collage tendencies intensify due to the compilation of computer graphics and photographic images, furthermore, simulacrum-images are actively utilized as well. Since the 2000s, digital technologies are actively used for the development of social, instructional and educational posters. The advent of new technologies has led to modifications of the animated poster genre, changed the way it functions and converted its form. Along with cinematic and television forms - new types of animated posters have appeared which are used in outdoor advertising (billboards) as well as dynamic interactive banners and animated posters on web sites.

Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing, Sales Revenue, and Music Output

A simple intuition justifies copyright: more revenue means more original works. In this article, I test that intuition by examining how the rise of file sharing, and the contemporaneous decline in record sales, affected music output. Using the appearance of new artists and new songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as a measure of music output, I show that the decline in sales was associated, ceteris paribus, with (i) fewer new artists but (ii) more hit songs by each new artist. Because the second effect outweighed the first, the rise of file sharing and the contemporaneous decline in record sales was associated with a net increase in the production of new hit songs.

E-BOOK AS A MODERN CULTURAL PHENOMENON

The article is devoted to comparative analysis of two forms of modern books – print and electronic, mostly from the viewpoint of design. The following parameters of comparison are examined: page and page turn; the reader‟s movement in the book; the flatness and depth; the book block; the individual shape of the book; text; illustration; tactile sensations; reliability of storing information; advantages and disadvantages of both forms of the book. One of the main distinguishing features of the e-book is the replacement of the book turn by the page, which entails a change in the perception of the text and illustrations. Advantages of the e-books compared to printed are almost exclusively utilitarian in nature and are associated with greater information capacity and ease of use. The main disadvantages of the e-books are reduced to the loss of individual artistic appearance and the loss of the right to be called art. Moreover, the reliability of printed books in respect of the electronic ones in case of "technological collapse" or technology upgrading, making it impossible to appeal to legacy software, is approved. The paper ends by outlining the author's view on prospects for the development of electronic and print books.

State of the Art in Artistic Editing of Appearance, Lighting and Material

AbstractMimicking the appearance of the real world is a longstanding goal of computer graphics, with several important applications in the feature film, architecture and medical industries. Images with well‐designed shading are an important tool for conveying information about the world, be it the shape and function of a computer‐aided design (CAD) model, or the mood of a movie sequence. However, authoring this content is often a tedious task, even if undertaken by groups of highly trained and experienced artists. Unsurprisingly, numerous methods to facilitate and accelerate this appearance editing task have been proposed, enabling the editing of scene objects' appearances, lighting and materials, as well as entailing the introduction of new interaction paradigms and specialized preview rendering techniques. In this review, we provide a comprehensive survey of artistic appearance, lighting and material editing approaches. We organize this complex and active research area in a structure tailored to academic researchers, graduate students and industry professionals alike. In addition to editing approaches, we discuss how user interaction paradigms and rendering back ends combine to form usable systems for appearance editing. We conclude with a discussion of open problems and challenges to motivate and guide future research.

PERLAWANAN KAUM MUDA TERHADAP HEGEMONI RADIKALISME AGAMA DALAM BENTUK-BENTUK BUDAYA POPULER

This paper aim to describe the middle class youth resistance against the religion radicalism which hegemonized the society. Religion radicalism is one of the main issue faced by the Indonesian as their cause of the communal conflicts within the state. The youths are the main target of the spreading the radicalism ideology. The qualitative method was done to comprehend the meanings of the middle class youth contemporary popular culture. Data was gained by several observation, depth interview, and framing analyses to the actors who are made the resistance. The results found that the youth have an awareness of the religion radicalism hegemony and made the resistance against the radicalist with several communicatively artistic appearance and oftten ironics which constructing the forms of youth contemporary popular culture.

Energy Performance of External versus Internal Shading Devices in Residential Buildings

In the traditional concept, the performance of internal shading system is inferior compared with that of external one. In actual projects, however, external shadings are subject to severe limitations due to the damage of artistic appearance in building design, the high initial investment and the difficult maintenance in the late stage. Besides, in residential buildings the shading measures are single, mainly including external and internal shadings, and the window types are quite similar. Therefore, through theoretical calculation and experimental test in this paper, the feasibility of substituting the internal shading system with high reflectivity for the external one in residential buildings was analyzed. Such replacement can reduce the cost of shading system and maintain the artistic appearance of building facades. Thus, there are few limitations on the appearance design of a building considering the shading performance.

A NPR Technique of Many Pieces Rendering

To provide with an effective method for non-photorealistic rendering for computer generated images with artistic appearances from 2D images motivates our work in this paper. The methods proposed in this paper are inspired by the many pieces synthesis mosaic effects. In this paper, we mainly propose the method for generating the artistic appearances based on the pieces synthesis and color tranfer technique. The block pieces can be chosen from arbitrary quantity images in the database. First, to accelerate synthesis speed, the mosaic effect can be generated based on the luminance channel. Further, we establish our method for obtaining RGB appearances taking the color transfer as the underlying basis. Therefore, the color of input image can be rendered to the final mosaic artistic effects. Experimental results show that our methods are effective and efficient.