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Then the pandemic lockdown happened.
When the date was set for the staff to exit the building, she knew she might not be able to visit it again. So while she still had access, she had a brainstorm: why not document the show with a curator's tour?
Our boat brought us to a settlement of crested hadrosaurs and their human assistants, where we spent a few days drying out in the smoky attics of their houses"
The painting is done in oil wash over pencil on illustration board, which has been sealed first with some workable fixative spray and then with a thin layer of acrylic matte medium.
This technique is fast, direct, and reproduces well.
Illustrations from Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time.
Read more about colexification in Science Magazine
Suppose an art director looked at one of your pieces and said "Great, but could you make it more goth?"
You'd know what to do, right? How about taking a cat picture and making it more cute or changing a tiger into a lion?
Computers, using large data sets, can accomplish such manipulations. In the top row of each pair is the input image. Below that is the manipulation. The phrase is the text prompt used to drive the manipulation.Eugen Dücker 1841-1916 painted this portrait—possibly a self portrait—in 1900, showing a portable lap box rig used frequently by plein-air painters at the time.
For a long time, scientists believed that images were decoded in a bottom-up process.
It was thought that the image arrived on the retina and was sorted out in stages, starting with edges and shapes that were then assembled into recognizable objects, faces, or symbols by specialized areas of the brain.
You may recognize what this image represents just from the top of the picture; you may even guess who painted it.