KEBUDAYAAN LOKAL SEBAGAI SUMBER INSPIRASI (Tinjauan Antropologi Visual pada Pelukis di Kota Makassar)

Abstract: The article talks about local culture in south sulawesi as the inspiration source for the painters in Makassar in visual anthropology point of view. The local culutre consists of material as well as non material culture including Perahu Pinisi (Pinisi Boat), Baju Bodo, Aksara (Bado Aksara Dress), Mhytos and legend, and also Pesona Alam (The Beauty of nature). The culture is expressed in the work of representational as well as non representational painting. The visual anthropology analysis is used to help understanding the phenomena of “new visual” prensented by the painters as an effort to present the new element and form of the imaged local culture. Theform of representational work can be seen in the cultural themes such as Perahu Pinisi, Baju Bodo, and Pesona alam. The Work also presents the complete and proportional visual elements so that culutural objects can be photograpically imagined even in different situation. For the reason, the close relationship between the inspiring local culture and the inspired painting symbolically has an equal value, while non representational work is imaginatively described by the painter. The visual values are illustrated based on aesthetic fiction, exprience, and the deep information from alphabet, mhytos, and legend. In this painting, the painter has different interpretation in visualize the information in case of formm, color, and compotition. Thus, the imagination and reality of culture cannot be separated form the owner’s community so that it will always appear as the new identity adn personality through the new visualization product

Interactive Extraction of High-Frequency Aesthetically-Coherent Colormaps

Color transfer functions (i.e. colormaps) exhibiting a high frequency luminosity component have proven to be useful in the visualization of data where feature detection or iso-contours recognition is essential. Having these colormaps also display a wide range of color and an aesthetically pleasing composition holds the potential to further aid image understanding and analysis. However producing such colormaps in an efficient manner with current colormap creation tools is difficult. We hereby demonstrate an interactive technique for extracting colormaps from artwork and pictures. We show how the rich and careful color design and dynamic luminance range of an existing image can be gracefully captured in a colormap and be utilized effectively in the exploration of complex datasets

Clustering Scatter Plots Using Data Depth Measures.

Clustering is rapidly becoming a powerful data mining technique, and has been broadly applied to many domains such as bioinformatics and text mining. However, the existing methods can only deal with a data matrix of scalars. In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical clustering procedure that can handle a data matrix of scatter plots. To more accurately reflect the nature of data, we introduce a dissimilarity statistic based on "data depth" to measure the discrepancy between two bivariate distributions without oversimplifying the nature of the underlying pattern. We then combine hypothesis testing with hierarchical clustering to simultaneously cluster the rows and columns of the data matrix of scatter plots. We also propose novel painting metrics and construct heat maps to allow visualization of the clusters. We demonstrate the utility and power of our new clustering method through simulation studies and application to a microbe-host-interaction study

Encapsulation and information hiding as the keys to maintainable and reusable hypermedia applications.

This paper presents a solution to the maintenance problem in hypermedia by applying object-oriented techniques to both the hypermedia data model and the hypermedia system's actual implementation. First, the primary concepts of the 'MESH' (Maintainable, End user friendly, Structured Hypermedia) approach are discussed briefly. These consist of a conceptual data model, a navigation paradigm and an implementation framework. Thereafter, it is shown how the object-oriented concepts of encapsulation and information hiding result in a hypermedia system consisting of self-contained, independently coded nodes. Intra node maintenance is separated entirely from inter node maintenance: the hyperbase's link structure can be updated without affecting node content, whereas an individual node's multimedia content can be reorganized without necessitating updates to links or link anchors.Applications; Information; Data; Model; Structure;

3 case studies: a hybrid educational strategy for ART/SCI collaborations

In this paper we report on a transdisciplinary university course designed to bring together fine art/visual communication design and computer science students for the creation and implementation of collaborative visual/audio projects that draw upon the specialized knowledge of both these disciplines. While an overview of the syllabus and the teaching methodologies is undertaken in the introduction, the focus of the paper concentrates upon an in-depth discussion and analysis of 3 specific projects that were developed by 3 distinct teams of students comprised of one artist/designer and one engineer each