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The Sketch Book : Washington Irving's literary apprenticeship in England.
… Irving decided to remain in England after the collapse of the Liverpool branch of his brothers' import-export business, where he had been working as an accountant. In England, he could observe a culture steeped in literary traditions. One result of his stay in England is The Sketch Book. On …
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Computer Sketch Recognition
<p>Tens of thousands of years ago, humans drew sketches that we can see and identify even today. Sketches are the oldest recorded form of human communication and are still widely used. The universality of sketches supersedes that of culture and language. Despite the universal accessibility of …
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Sketch similarity searching
… such as military, bio-medicine, education and the World Wide Web (WWW), use a large volume of image data. This necessity for better image searching techniques has instigated researchers to study new technologies that could be the pinnacle of next generation image retrieval systems. Current …
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The poetics of sketch comedy
The Poetics of Sketch Comedy labels, defines and analyzes the conventions of sketch comedy. The comic sketch is examined for its structural conventions, and is broken into categories for analysis. The superstructure of variety entertainment, and conventions used to simulate cohesiveness in variety …
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Extending the ASSIST sketch recognition system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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A Sketch of Sound
… texture is central to my orchestral work, A Sketch of Sound. The brass, wind, percussion, and string sections function independently of each other, and each creates a single type of atmospheric sound. Extensions of these basic textures either connect or collide against each other. Such …
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Three-dimensional sketch tool
This thesis depicts a computer software program that enables a user to sketch lines and shapes into three-dimensional space. The problem with current computer modeling software is its requirement for the precise input of control points to establish three-dimensional objects and scenes. This heavy …
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Digitally augmented sketch-planning
While many aspects of the planning profession have changed radically in light of recent technological advances, the practice of sketching plans has remained largely unaffected. There may be good reasons for eschewing computers in the design arena such as that their use may detract from the liberty …
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User-directed sketch interpretation
… and object diagrams) by combining an off-line sketch recognition system with the user interface of a traditional structured graphics editor. The system, called UDSI (user-directed sketch interpretation), aims to provide drawing freedom by allowing the user to sketch entirely off-line using a …
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Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
Nariman Dossabhai Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and …
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3D Sketch Recognition Using The Microsoft Kinect
The concept of sketch-based recognition has recently been used to enhance object categorization and speed up image retrieval. However, in each of the previous studies, the user was required to sketch on a two-dimensional plane. Currently there haven’t been any studies on the performance of …
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A Phonological Sketch of the Kufo Language
The linguistic diversity of East Africa is well-known, but understandings of the languages in some regions, such as the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, remain extremely limited. There are many open questions regarding the linguistic relationships and genetic affiliation of languages in the Nuba Mountains, …
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A Phonological Sketch of the Kufo Language
The linguistic diversity of East Africa is well-known, but understandings of the languages in some regions, such as the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, remain extremely limited. There are many open questions regarding the linguistic relationships and genetic affiliation of languages in the Nuba Mountains, …
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Drawing on the World: sketch in context
This thesis introduces the idea that combining sketch recognition with contextual data-information about what is being drawn on-can improve the recognition of meaning in sketch and enrich the user interaction experience. I created a language called StepStool that facilitates the description of the …
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Sketch Quality Prediction Using Transformers
The quality of an input sketch can affect performance of the computational algorithms. However, the quality of a sketch is not often considered when working with sketch tasks and automated sketch quality prediction has not been previously studied. This thesis presents quality prediction on the …
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Rethinking the book
Electronic media have lagged behind their paper progenitors in the clear, usable display of large bodies of information. New visual languages have been created for information display which exploit the computer's unique ability to render dynamic and three-dimensional typography. These languages …
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