The L%LINES Package

The program (L%LINES X Y) takes feature point output from the FP%FPOINTS program (q.v.) for horizontal and vertical scans (X and Y respectively); and outputs a list consisting of two lists of line segments, represented in an obvious manner, obtained from the respective arguments. "Feature points" are points on the field of view which seem to lie along some edge in the scene. The line segments output by L%LINES are obtained by examining a set of feature points for straight chains of points.McCulloch Laboratory Vision Grou

The Line Proposer P%PROPOSE1, and Additional Notes on "F%FEATUREPOINTS" and "GVERIFY1"

Work reported herein was supported by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an M.I.T. research program sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract number N00014-70-A-0362-0002.The line proposer P%PROPOSE1 is described in the first part of this memo. It makes use of links provided by the J%JOIN program, in proposing possibly missing lines in a line drawing of simple plane-faced objects. The remainder of this paper updates the descriptions of "F%FEATUREPOINTS" and "GVERIFY1" given in flashes #3 and #2 respectively.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Vision Grou

How to Use .VSCAN

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The J%JOIN Package

Work reported herein was supported by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an M.I.T. research program sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under office of Naval Research contract number N00014-70-A-0362-0002.The J%JOIN program creates links between the elements of a set of line segments on the basis of their geometric proximity. According to the value of the third argument, (T or NIL), the program will either place a set of links in an array, suitable for use by the program P%PURPOSE, or will return a set of "re-adjusted" line segments with the property that lines apparently converging on a common vertex are assigned identical end points at the appropriate ends. Twelve geometric parameters are used to control the joining procedure. Starred sections (*) are for reference only; J%JOIN may be successfully used by someone familiar with only the unstarred sections of this memo.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Vision Grou

Gorecki\u27s Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, Sorrowful Songs

The experience of listening to Gorecki’s Symphony no. 3, op. 36 “Sorrowful Songs” is one that is not easily forgotten. It is not only musically captivating, but also historically fascinating. After its premiere in 1977, Gorecki’s piece captivated listeners across the globe as it became a cultural phenomenon in both Europe and America. The music was a stunning success in both the Classical and popular cultures. What is it about the music that is so captivating? How did the trending, popular thoughts compare to Gorecki’s original ideas and compositional motives? What actually inspired this piece? By looking at the composition and premise of each movement, I am going to introduce how the piece was written around the theme of maternal love and separation of mother and child. The Third Symphony was heavily influenced by Gorecki’s personal past, but also by his Catholic beliefs and by Polish history. The separate texts to this three movement piece deal individually with a mother’s lament over her son’s departure, the Virgin Mary’s grief at her Son’s death, and finally the words of an incarcerated prison girl to her mother. Because of the setting from which the third text was drawn, and because of Gorecki’s Polish history and experiences in the post-holocaust world, many people have interpreted this to be a “war piece” which avenges the sufferers of the Holocaust. According to Gorecki, this piece is a lament- it expresses a profound sense of grief which, arguably, cannot accurately be expressed with words. Gorecki used his music to confront, mourn, and express his pain and the pain of many other people. By finding primary sources, such as interviews of Henryk Gorecki, and by looking at the scholarly books and journals by Luke B. Howard, Adrian Thomas, and other scholars of Polish avant-garde music, I hope to properly understand and express the intentions Gorecki wished to convey by writing The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Scott\u27s fiction and the Union of 1707

This dissertation focuses on several of Sir Walter Scott\u27s historical novels that deal with the question of the 1707 Act of Union that united Scotland with England. The following novels were studied: Old Mortality, The Bride of Lammermoor, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Waverley, Redgauntlet, and The Antiquarian. The novels were considered for this dissertation in their chronological order within historical timelines and not according to their publication dates; In all of the novels it is evident that Scott was a strong supporter of the Union and the commercial empowerment that it offered to Scotland; for him the Union represented moderation in government and liberalism in religion. All of the novels presented in this thesis have as their heroes or heroines those who espouse moderation in interpreting the main political and religious issues of their day. The novels deal with a traditional society vexed by religious and political fanaticism. It is obvious from the novels that Scott believed very much in the Enlightenment concepts of moderation and toleration in all things. It is also obvious that he strongly believed in the ideal of social and economic progress: that history was the study of the triumph of progress over barbarism; Scott has often been considered as an early contributor to the Romantic Movement, but his political and social ideals are in contradiction to this tradition. The Romantics tended to reject the labored moderation that was the hallmark of the Enlightenment. Romanticism embraced an exhalation of individual passions; it also tended, in its more Gothic representations, to idealize the past and to see the present as lacking a more natural humanism that was closer to the soil. Scott, on the other hand, is very studied in his rejection of passion as a motivation in human development. For Scott it is not unbridled passion that should inspire a hero to be emulated. Scott instead upheld the hero of moderation; the proper, ideal gentleman that was so much a part of the 18th century concept of political improvement, progress, and liberality who points to the future. This is Scott\u27s ideal. In truth, Scott considered the romantic hero who is motivated by passions to be dangerous; In the novels that deal with Scottish history and the Union, those who embrace passion are also motivated mostly by hatred and bigotry; it is the man of moderation who prospers. Romanticism also had a love for the middle-ages, both in art, architecture, as well a political theory. Scott will have none of it; he fully embraces the modern world and the progress of individual freedom under the constitutional monarchy that replaced royal absolutism. For Scott moderation in religion and politics, coupled with economic progress, are the true gifts of the 1707 Act of Union; In all of the novels studied those who most closely resemble the romantic concept of hero or heroine either dies, or retires to a monastic enclosure. They are perceived as sterile and old fashioned. Their ideas of romantic glory are simply antiquated. It is the upholders of constitutional government and commercial interests who survive and prosper; those who are willing and able to enter into the modern world. For Scott, his native land needed to be lead by a progressive leadership that had escaped the snare of the historical forces of fanaticism, both religious and political. It was religious and political passions that had lead Scotland into years of civil wars and rebellion