Recently our lab has shown that with broadband stimuli (either visual noise or natural scenes), performance for detecting oriented content is worst at horizontal, best at the obliques, and intermediate at vertical orientations--an anisotropy...
City planning--Psychological aspects; City planning--Citizen participation
This dissertation examines the impact of complexity and familiarity on visual preference for two content domains defined as Neo-Traditional and Modern. This research has five main themes: (1) To determine if there is a method for community design...
High dynamic range imaging involves imaging at a bit depth higher than the typical 8-12 bits offered by standard video equipment. We propose a method of imaging a scene at high dynamic range, 14+ bits, to detect motion correlated with changes in...
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: scene of Belgium, with man watching woman making lace before backdrop of cathedral and thatched-roof cottage; scene of Ireland, with man watching woman carry pail on her head across...
Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems; Human face recognition (Computer science)
Humans have the uncanny ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D), otherwise known as depth perception. The amazing thing about this ability to determine distances is that it depends only on a simple two-dimensional (2D) image in the...
Human being can easily acquire information by showing the object than reading the description of it. Our brain stores images that the eyes are seeing and by the brain mapping, people can analyze information by imagination in the brain. This is the...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Great Britain--History--16th century; Great Britain--History--17th century
Of all the arts drama is the most democratic. Other forms of artistic and aesthetic expression, literature, music, painting, may be cultivated in solitude. Not so the drama. It is demanded by the public; produced for the public and unless it is...
Israel--Social conditions; Israel--Social life and customs
Times Square went mad with noise and excitement,
and a small freighter slipped from its Brooklyn berth into
the drama of the night. It was December 31, 1949--midnight-January
1, 1950; and I was on my way to the world in general
and Israel and the...
The role of mothers, the constitution of families, and the power of their stories are the bedrock of my thesis, which is the first 90 pages of a novel entitled Playing House . In it, I hope to investigate the denotation and connotation of the words...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: men with plumed hats holding swords and men with helmets holding spears looking over valley at distant mountain range, from which smoke signals emanate; man sitting outdoors with books...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left (all images signed "Hartwell" unless otherwise noted): Sardanapalus (Assyrian king) seated on throne holding a goblet aloft, with men and women in attendance; scene in city square;...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left, and all signed "Hartwell": "Introduction," with camels, giraffes, lions, zebras, and vegetation; bearded man with turban in foreground, and man on horseback in...
Sierra Leone; Imperialism; Discovery & exploration; Men; Women; Animals; Central African Republic; Africa, Central; Big game hunting; Royalty; Lutes; Stringed instruments; Servants; Africa, West; Ships
Woodblock prints, all signed "Hartwell," from left to right starting at top left: Scene of Sierra-Leone, with black man pointing lion out to two white men holding guns; group of black men, overseen by white man in safari garb, rowing boat...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters; Stages (Platforms); Auditoriums;
Interior view of the Playhouse theater on its original site, showing the auditorium seats and curtain. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House of Reform, the Playhouse was purchased by the University of Louisville, circa...
Zimmerman, Leo W., 1924–2008; Art, Abstract--Kentucky--Louisville; Kinetic art--Kentucky--Louisville; Mural painting and decoration, American--Kentucky--Louisville
Leo Zimmerman is a contradiction: A man who was both highly collaborative and deeply influential in the Louisville art scene but was a misanthrope who became increasingly reclusive over the years. He produced prolifically yet chose to never sell...
Scene from "The Second in Command," which, starring John Drew, was performed at Macauley's Theatre on February 19-20, 1904. The actors pictured in this scene are Montague Love (standing, wearing a mustache and military uniform with sword,...
Production photograph of a scene from a minstrel stage show, with an outdoor backdrop and picnic props. One man in blackface points a shotgun at another man in blackface, while a man in the middle, with long sideburns and wearing a hunting cap and...
England; Men; Women; Children; Animals; People associated with religion; Sculpture; Greek temples; Military personnel; Soldiers; Uniforms; Portugal; France; Lyres; Stringed instruments
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: scene of England, signed "Hartwell," with man, woman, and children seated in front of thatched hut among chickens, with horse, carriage, and Tower of London visible in...
