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Showing 1 to 20 of 900 for “"drawings"”.
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On Drawings of Dragons
<p>Fantasy functions in a strange ebb and flow—constantly negotiating with truth, reality, history, and culture. This essay interrogates visual material which largely accompanies literature within the fantasy genre, a subgenre of speculative fiction typically set in magical worlds apart from our …
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A book of drawings
Work is presented to show one architect's findings, relating process rather than a single project. The book itself is conceived as the final product. Included are pages from the architect's notebook; axonometric studies and perspective sketches; and diagrams of the work. The idea for a chapel is …
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One house: text & drawings
Over all that has been said here hovers the judgment of Hegel that art, "on the side of its highest vocation is a thing of the past." Under this judgment the limits of mythic thought are brought to light with respect to itself. For an incomplete mythic identification with modern cultural forms …
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A Series of Figure Drawings
… of this study to create a series of figure drawings by means of experimentation with various materials and techniques, with a brief study on artists and their need and potential to delve in fantasies and mystical realms, just as the candidate will do in certain stages of development.
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First Principles of Line Drawings
… an unsupervised method for creating line drawings from photographs or 3D models. Current methods often rely on high quality paired datasets to automate the creation of line drawings. We observe that line drawings are encodings of scene information that convey 3D shape and semantic meaning. …
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Cyclic Level Drawings of Directed Graphs
… input graph is preserved and clearly visible in drawings. Sugiyama et al. also suggested apart from the nowadays standard horizontal algorithm a cyclic version they called recurrent hierarchies. However, this cyclic drawing style has not received much attention since. In this thesis we consider …
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Writing Images: Blending Drawings and Code
Drawing has long been known to show the thought process of the artist because of its physical immediacy and the way it encourages fast, informal iteration. In contrast the history of programming has been toward a universal language so that common challenges can be addressed in the same way. This …
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Deep learning for digitising complex engineering drawings.
… analyse it. Amongst these documents, engineering drawings are considered one of the most challenging to digitise. The task involves automatically recognising all drawing components which are the symbols, text and connections. Although there has been significant improvement in computer vision due …
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Predicting Reading Readiness from Human Figure Drawings
<p>This study was undertaken specifically to aid the Arlington Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington. The expressed need of this school was to find a best predictor of the readiness of kindergarten age children to begin formal reading programs. It was hoped that an adequate yet easily …
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Reaction to Stimulus Figures in Chimpanzee Drawings
… chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>) produced drawings at the University of Oklahoma between November 1971 and November 1972. Chimpanzees drew on sheets of paper that were either blank or had a stimulus. The stimulus was located in the center or offset from the center. These drawings were …
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Kinetic Family Drawings of Chinese-American Children
… and the mother was the most nurturing figure. Drawings depicting families doing things together or parents playing with children were rare. The most common mother and father actions were mother cooking and father reading the newspaper. The girls drew themselves most often doing homework, and …
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Two-dimensional computer aided design drawings interpretation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Generating line drawings from abstract scene descriptions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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A Series of Collage Drawings Expressing Metaphysical Moods
The problem. A series of collage drawings to express the artist's personal involvement with peculiar relationships between supernatural and normal conditions or events in life which form a metaphysical reality. Procedure. To develop a large group of representational images and settings taken from …
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Children's drawings of model houses: A developmental study
… was to investigate: (1) the difference between drawings from two and three-dimensional models in terms of projectivity, detail, and proportion; (2) the relative influences of color and line on children's drawings; (3) the difference between multicolored material and monochrome material when …
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Kinetic family drawings as indices of family functioning
Kinetic Family Drawings (KFDs) are Projective drawings which require the drawer to give 'action' to the depicted figures. A number of studies have been conducted following its inception in 1970. (Burns & Kaufman, 1970; 1972). Upon examination of these studies, however, it is evident that those …
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Methods for recognizing patterns in digitized line drawings
… and region data from digitized engineering line drawings, first proposed by Watson et.al.[3] and further developed by Bixler et.al.[4], is completed. As a means for the automatic analysis of picture content, a model based recognizer for line patterns is developed. The pattern matcher uses a …
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