Artistic Appearance Research Articles

Carmen Dauset Moreno, primera musa del cine estadounidense

This article aims to analyze the relevance of the Spanish dancer Carmen Dauset Moreno for film History. Known in vaudeville circles as Carmencita, she was the first woman to appear on two brief films for the kinetoscope made in Edison's studio in march 1894. In this sense, the article tries to put in context the appearance of the Spanish artist in these films and poses questions on the meaning of them in the development of the initial stages of cinematic representation and their link to the origins of cinema censorship in the United States of America.

Non-Photorealistic Rendering Effect of Halftoning

To provide with an effective method for non-photorealistic rendering for computer generated images with halftoning artistic appearances from 2D images motivates our work in this paper. The methods proposed in this paper are inspired by improved error diffusion method and image enhancement, and the whole diffusion algorithm is based on the average threshold. Firstly, source image should be transferred to the gray image. Then, error diffusion, spread component and parameter confirming can be used to obtain more details. Experimental results show that the proposed method can simulate the halftoning effect in real time, and blemishes of the results can be eliminated.

Sketch Simulating Based on Non-Photorealistic Rendering

To provide with an effective method for non-photorealistic rendering for computer generated images with sketch artistic appearances from 2D images motivates our work in this paper. The character of lines, details in the source image can be smoothed by the technique of guided filter, and then the abstract smooth appearance of the image can be simulated. In addition, the smooth effect can be enlarged and enhanced by the technique of improved line integral convolution, so the final sketch artistic image can be obtained. Experimental results show that the proposed method can simulate the real sketch effect.

Application of Laser Engraving for Sustainable Fashion Design

In this paper, the novel surface effects of fashion garments through CO2 laser engraving treatment were investigated. To improve the visual appearance, the wool/polyester blended fabric was treated with ideal parameters including resolution (dpi) and pixel time (μs). The physical properties, which include weight, thickness, air permeability, thermal conductivity and tear strength, were evaluated in accordance with international specifications. This study reveals the potential of feasible fashion designs through laser engraving. The computer-aided design method can open up new possibilities for green fashion design. It is believed that fashion design with rich artistic appearances such as patterns, colors and textures can cater for fashion industries and the process can facilitate quick responses to the market.

비주얼 컬처로서 만화영상의 확장된 장(場, fest)에 대한 논의: 뉴 테크놀로지를 중심으로

만화는 1990년 이후 사회 문화 전반에 디지털화가 급속하게 이루어지면서 만화의 디지털화를 이끌었고 지면에서 웹으로의 매체변화가 이동하면서 강력한 시각문화 발전하였으며 멀티미디어 기술과의 만남으로 영상문화로까지 진화하고 있다. 따라서 만화는 이제 문자문화로 보기 보다는 '확장된 장(마당, 場, fest)'으로 시각문화와 영상문화로서 다루고 더욱 넓은 의미의 만화영상으로 주목해야 한다. 연구자는 본 연구에서 빠르게 변화하는 디지털 시대에 맞춰 변화되는 만화의 현주소를 진단하고 이에 따르는 앞으로 만화가 지향해야 할 방향에 대한 이야기를 하고자 한다. 그러기 위해서 우선 만화의 디지털화와 대학에서 만화영상 전문교육을 시작했던 시점인 1990년대부터 현재의 만화영상의 장에 이르기까지의 변화들을 사례 중심으로 논의하였다. 뉴 테크놀로지와 만화의 만남에 따라 기존의 만화의 형태는 깨지고 있다. 특히 뉴 테크놀로지 기술을 작품에 적극 활용하는 작가들이 대거 등장함에 따라 만화의 내용적, 형식적 변화와 캐릭터 활용의 확장이 빠르게 이뤄지고 있다. 이러한 첨단기술의 발달은 작품에만 영향을 끼치는데 그치지 않고 감상자의 역할까지 변화 시키고 있다. 이제 독자는 적극적으로 작품에 대한 의견을 제시하고 팬덤을 형성하여 자신이 좋아하는 작품과 작가를 홍보하고 스타의 자리로 올려놓기도 한다. 더 나아가 스스로 창작물을 만들고 스스로 작가가 되는 새로운 형식의 등용시스템을 만들어 내기도 한다. 결과적으로 이러한 다양한 장르의 작가군의 형성으로 인해 새로운 이야기 텍스트 개발의 가능성과 다양한 스타일, 세계관이 등장 되면서 만화텍스트의 본질이 확장되고 있다고 볼 수 있다. 또한 만화문화, 산업, 교육, 기관, 기술 등 전반적인 만화시스템 역시 확장되고 있다. 앞으로도 만화영상은 차세대의 문화를 반영하고 매개하고 소통하는 메신저로도 공헌해 나갈 것이라고 기대한다. 오늘날의 만화는 인쇄만화와 영상만화로 구분 지을 수 없겠고, 설치개념의 만화와 더불어 블록버스터 디지털영상, 팬시용품과 서사를 바탕으로 하는 테마파크의 캐릭터 활용을 볼 때 다양한 형태와 양식으로 각 영역을 확장해 갈 것이다. 그러므로 지금보다 만화영상 교육을 다양성 있게 다각화시킬 필요가 있다. 창의적 예술 능력에 인문사회학적 기반과 뉴 테크놀로지 교육이 접목되어 문자문화와 영상문화의 감각종합형 문화 분야를 이끌어 갈 수 있는 그러한 능력을 가진 미래 세대를 키우는 것이 오늘날 우리의 과제일 것이다. The rapid digitalization across all aspects of society since 1990 led to the digitalization of cartoons. As the medium of cartoons moved from paper to the web, a powerful visual culture emerged. An encounter between cartoons and multimedia technologies has helped cartoons evolve into a video culture. Today cartoons are no longer literate culture. It is critical to pay attention to cartoons as an "expanded fest" and as visual and video culture with much broader significance. In this paper, the investigator set out to diagnose the current position of cartoons changing in the rapidly changing digital age and talk about future directions that they should pursue. Thus she discussed cases of changes from 1990 when colleges began to provide specialized education for cartoons and animation to the present day when cartoon and Multimedia Comics fests exist in addition to the digitalization of cartoons. The encounter between new technologies and cartoons broke down the conventional forms of cartoons. The massive appearance of artists that made active use of new technologies in their works, in particular, has facilitated changes to the content and forms of cartoons and the expansion of character uses. The development of high technologies extends influence to the roles of appreciators beyond the artists' works. Today readers voice their opinions about works actively, build a fan base, promote the works and artists they favor, and help them rise to stardom. As artist groups of various genres were formed, the possibilities of new stories and texts and the appearance of diverse styles and world views have expanded the essence of cartoon texts and the overall cartoon system of cartoon culture, industry, education, institution, and technology. It is expected that cartoons and Multimedia Comics will continue to make a contribution as a messenger to reflect the next generation of culture, mediate it, and communicate with it. Today there is no longer a distinction between print and video cartoons. Cartoons will expand in every field through a wide range of forms and styles, given the current situations involving installation concept cartoons, blockbuster digital videos, fancy items, and characters at theme parks based on a narrative. It is therefore necessary to diversify cartoon and Multimedia Comics education in diverse ways. Today educators are faced with a task to bring up future generations of talents who are capable of leading the culture of overall senses based on literate and video culture by incorporating humanities, social studies, and new technology education into their creative artistic abilities.

Texture Deviation Mapping Based on Detail Enhancement

To provide with an effective technique 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 image deviation mapping constructed from a single texture background image. We establish our method for obtaining artistic appearances taking the deviation mapping as the underlying basis. Based on the simple linear filtering convolution operation, which is well suited of progressive coarsening of images and for detail extraction, and the image’s detail, such as edge and tone can be preserved in the final artistic appearance. This method has the exact computational complexity, and this technique is easily to implement and the rendering speed is fast.

Designs that surpass imagination are born from discomfort outside the knowledge domain

Analyzing the mind process of industrial designers led to hypotheses that industrial design (1) not only involves defining artistic appearance but also builds on concepts derived from voice of customer and establishes independent functional requirements, and (2) does not just meet the customer expectation with conventional forms but defines products that surpass the customer imagination by starting from discomfort outside the knowledge domain. Our analysis of 475 products that won Japan's Good Design Award revealed that 39% of them are designed from the expressed functional requirements, 20% surpassed people's imagination, and 67% of the latter came out from negative discomfort.

Sublime dreams of living machines: the automaton in the European imagination

From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton - better known today as the robot - has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.

Study on Relationship between Building Material and Building Form

Different materials will offer different physical property and visual effects, where the building form is the result of adapting to the material and showing its effect. This paper made some suggestions on selecting and applying materials involved in building design in terms of structure stress, making technique and artistic appearance. This method is a return to the essentials of building, and a key direction for building innovation.

Follicular neoplasm of the thyroid gland: Unique cytologic appearances in a fine‐needle aspiration biopsy

Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy has become a standard first-line diagnostic procedure for palpable and nonpalpable nodules of the thyroid gland. Six cytologic diagnostic categories have recently been proposed to unify the terminology that is linked to proper clinical management. We report a case of follicular neoplasm diagnosed on FNA specimen that had a very artistic appearance of the microfollicle formation on both Diff-Quik and Papanicolaou-stained slides.

Training of Tectonic Skills in Architectural Studies

Abstract Tectonic expression of forms maintains the importance developed in architecture for a long time, but changing conditions force it to become more complex and integrate more factors. Tectonics creates preconditions for architecture as a sincretic art. So the tectonic nature of architecture becomes of great interest for the creative process. It becomes meaningful to introduce multiple and diverse problems of tectonics into architectural education. The creative work of a contemporary architect is stimulated by generation of distinctive architectural forms which are based on the nature of materials, logical adoption of structures and development of artistic appearance. Skills in modelling a tectonic form play an important role in the process of creation a sound architectural form. Therefore, it is worth to improve the methods of teaching and develop tectonic skills in a more effective way. In the process of education understanding of the interrelation of the main tectonic elements – material, structur...

Study on the phase-separated opaque glaze in ancient China from Qionglai kiln

Qionglai kiln is a famous folk kiln site in China. Six pieces of opaque green-glazed porcelain shards with mild gloss and jade-like feel fired in the Tang dynasty (618–907 A.D.), were adopted as test samples. The correlation among composition, microstructure, firing technique and glaze appearance has been investigated by means of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence, field emission electron microscopy, direct transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and refiring experiment. The study has demonstrated that the opaque green glazes from Qionglai kiln site are high-temperature calcia–magnesia–silicate glazes and typical of phase-separated glazes. The liquid–liquid immiscibility structure plays a key role for the artistic appearance of the glazes.

ARTISTIC IMAGE GENERATION BY DEVIATION MAPPING

This paper describes a novel technique (deviation mapping) that generates images with artistic appearances, e.g. spray painted wall, embossment, cashmere painting, etc. Our technique employs a deviation map constructed from a single background image in the image generation process. Instead of recovering the exact geometry from the background image, the deviation map can be regarded as a virtual surface. This virtual surface is then painted with a foreground image and illuminated to generate the final result. Interestingly, the synthesized images exhibit some artistic appearances. Our method is very fast and very simple to implement.

Corrosion resistant coloured chromium oxide coatings on stainless steel

Corrosion resistance and artistic appearance of passive chromium oxide coatings developed over stainless steel by chemical conversion methods are revisited. Preparation technique and thermal processing of the films were optimized to improve protection efficiency and the control of colour development ‐ from yellow to green through violet ‐ is at present under study. Film structure and composition were studied by X‐ray diffraction and soft X‐ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) using synchrotron radiation to assess element speciation. Surface microstructure was monitored by SEM observation. Enhanced passivation behaviour of thermally processed films is related to the formation of a spinel‐type phase after migration of manganese from the bulk steel to oxide coating surface.

Aesthetics in the Context of Time

From ancient times through the Renaissance to the industrial revolution, the master builder was more artist than engineer in today's sense of the word. The importance of artistic appearance is evident in so many of the bridges that have survived into this century, even those visible only in old printss. Over the centuries, structural engineering evolved into a science, ignoring artistic expression completely. Today, the architect is generally regarded as the artist of the built environment, and not the civil engineer.

Le May des orfèvres

formation is not only a matter of evolving "taste", it in fact entails much more complex stakes which have to do with the emergence of the artistic field, the autonomisation of esthetic judgment and the mutations of the religious sentiment. By reconstructing the whole range of judgments pronounced on the May and comparing these with the actors' social positions, it is possible to shed some light on the change in the status of the work of art at this crucial time of the late-17th century and, perhaps, to understand what is behind appearance of the modern artist.