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Showing 1 to 20 of 366 for “"sketches"”.
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Efficient matrix computations via subsampling sketches
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Sketches for a Benedictine monastery, Paris Mountain, Virginia
The site is the Northwest side of Paris Mountain overlooking the valley, flat fields and the winding road along the river. The monastery is thought of as a whole encompassing its various parts: the church, the monk's dormitory, the library, the winery, the bakery, the barns and the field chapel. …
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Drawing interfaces : building geometric models with hand-drawn sketches
… to build geometric models using freehand sketches. This program illustrates that it is possible to design a software tool in a way that profits from, rather than negates, the power of visual representations.
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping
Designers routinely create informal “thinking” sketches to explore a design space, “talking” sketches to communicate design ideas during the early phases of the design process, and “learning” prototypes to test potential concepts. This study presents two new tools to assess novice designers’ sketch …
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Semi-automatic fitting of deformable 3D models to 2D sketches
We present a novel method for building 3D models from a user sketch. Given a 2D sketch as input, the approach aligns and deforms a chosen 3D template model to match the sketch. This is guided by a set of user-specified correspondences and an algorithm that deforms the 3D model to match the sketched …
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Detection of human face from sketches using deep learning networks
… version of perceived suspects. Then these sketches are employed to identify the correct persons from a photo database, which will be a time consuming task if not impossible for a human being. This work investigates the application of artificial techniques (AI), specifically, the recent …
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Towards extracting artistic sketches and maps from digital elevation models
… technique for automatically extracting artistic sketches from regular grid digital elevation models. The results resemble those drawn by skilled cartographers and artists.The use of cartographic line simplification algorithms, which are usually applied to complex two-dimensional lines such as …
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Sketches Count: The Mies Van Der Rohe’s Dirksen Courthouse Archive Redrawn
… of Mies. This body of work consists of 135 sketches, diagrams, and drawings, features alternative solutions, variational schemes, and sectional innovations, and provides an untapped resource to allow a closer look at the expressive range of the architectural language and the technical …
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A study of the Four Roman sketches of Charles T. Griffes
<p>Charles Tomlinson Griffes becomes a remarkable figure in American music when one considers the musical influences which surrounded him. The first of these influences, and the one of longest tenure, was that of his piano teacher, a Miss Mary Selena Broughton. An eccentric woman and, considering …
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Resource-Efficient Machine Learning via Count-Sketches and Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH)
Machine learning problems are increasing in complexity, so models are growing correspondingly larger to handle these datasets. (e.g., large-scale transformer networks for language modeling). The increase in the number of input features, model size, and output classification space is straining our …
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Mnemonic sketches: Utopias of mourning in contemporary South African performances of tragedy
This multidisciplinary study locates, at its centre and at the centre of tragedy more broadly, the notion of chorus. My orientation around chorus in this study is based on the one hand, in performance- as in the live moment of present encounter- and on the other hand, in the local context of …
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Envisage: Investigating Design Intentions, Visual Perception through Eye Tracking of Architectural Sketches
… intention through observation of his or her sketches? Yes, but it requires a probing process of observation. Across time and continents, master architects have developed a collection of the processes for expressing powerful design intentions through succinct and dynamic representation, or …
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Envisioning sketch recognition : a local feature based approach to recognizing informal sketches
Hand drawn sketches are an important part of the early design process and are an important aspect of creative design. They are used in many fields including electrical engineering, software engineering and web design. Recognizing shapes in these sketches is a challenging task due to the imprecision …
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Feature point detection and curve approximation for early processing of free-hand sketches
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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The secret smile: Mirth and humor in the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… and unprejudiced reading of the tales and sketches reveals an abundance of humor and mirth; This study surveys the subtle humor evinced in many stories through the ironic voice of Hawthorne's narrator confronting the vagaries and ambiguities of reality--a minister inexplicably wears a veil, …
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Pity and anger in the poetry of William Blake from 'Poetical sketches' to 'Milton'
… pity and anger in Blake's poetry from Poetical Sketches to Milton, placing them in their historical and intellectual contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the main themes, arguing that Blake saw himself as a counter-ideologist, working to change social and individual 'structures of feeling'. It …
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Edward Goodall’s ‘Sketches in British Guiana’: art, anthropography and colonialism in 19th century Amazonia
… over 250 drawn and watercolour works labelled as Sketches in British Guiana, and carried out by Goodall in his role as official expedition illustrator. These sketches captured a wide range of geographical subjects, from botany, topography and zoology, to hydrography, geology and historical scenes …
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On formal principles for form-making : notes and sketches on making associative built-form
Form-making is the purposeful arrangement of forms for a specific objective. This includes selecting forms and establishing spatial relations among these forms. Since form making is not a random act, ~here are rules that it must follow. These rules determine the result of the design, or they …
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