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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"negative spaces"”.
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Human pose and action recognition using negative space analysis
… method proposed here, however, focuses on the negative spaces: the areas surrounding the individual. This has resulted in the colour-coded negative space approach, an image preprocessing step that circumvents the need for complicated model fitting or template matching methods. The approach can …
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BRIDGE SCAPE
… shortage issue in Singapore by using existing negative spaces that are formed due to the presence of the expressways. With around 60% built up area on its 716km2 land, Singapore has applied and envisioned some strategies in anticipating its even greater land need in the next 20 years. They …
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Preserving Change, Changing How We Preserve
… this thesis weaves new construction through the negative spaces defined by existing historic structures. This overlapping of new and old creates an experiential quality that allows for a temporal reading of the site and the school. This project attempts to mend a broken fabric while reflecting …
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CONSCIOUSNESS IN CLAY
… lines, undulations, fecundity, dark openings, negative-spaces, the phallic-symbol, and budding new life may all come to mind; but nothing finitely specific emerges. Using my knowledge of biology and microbiology as fertile ground for shapes and patterns makes this living territory infinite. …
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Transformative infrastructures: retrofitting the apartheid city
… that transforms the city by ameliorating the negative spaces of existing infrastructure, bridges spatial divisions, and provides physical and social services to underserved communities. The dissertation is founded on an understanding of Cape Town's twentieth-century planning and development as …
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Crazy People
… crutches. The preface explores the concept of negative space as it applies to short fiction, manifesting itself in the form of open-ended endings, miscommunication between characters, rhetorical questions, and allusions to unspecified characters. The preface seeks to differentiate "good" space …
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
… our expectations, while sound disruptions create negative spaces which serve as markers of the apocalyptic and the threshold. This idea of negative space is closely linked to the ideas of absence and unfulfilment and is pivotal in understanding Rossetti’s poetry. I argue that Rossetti’s theology …