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The World, Gulliver, and the Critic

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2020
The satiric world of Gulliver’s Travels is one of uncertainties and unresolved dualities. This essay argues that, in a homothetic manner, critical discourse on Gulliver’s Travels should be governed by a similar logic, one that reclaims contradiction as ...
Nathalie Zimpfer
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Figuring volatility

open access: yesFinance and Society, 2023
This article argues that there are parallels between developments in modern science and in art and culture, including the culture of finance, and that these developments can be tracked by a notion of volatility not just as change, but as how change ...
Ackbar Abbas
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Street Art and Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and its reception. These unexpected “
Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka
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Fractal initial conditions and natural parameter values in hybrid inflation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We show that the initial field values required to produce inflation in the two fields original hybrid model, and its supergravity F-term extension, do not suffer from any fine-tuning problem, even when the fields are restricted to be sub-planckian and ...
Clesse, Sebastien   +2 more
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Dynamic Anamorphosis as a Special, Computer-Generated User Interface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A classical or static anamorphic image requires a specific, usually a highly oblique view direction, from which the observer can see the anamorphosis in its correct form.
Batagelj, Borut   +3 more
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The Development of Arthropod Segmentation Across the Embryonic/Post-embryonic Divide – An Evolutionary Perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In many arthropods, the appearance of new segments and their differentiation are not completed by the end of embryogenesis but continue, in different form and degree, well after hatching, in some cases up to the last post-embryonic molt.
Giuseppe Fusco, Alessandro Minelli
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Anamorphosis

open access: yes, 2022
Anamorphosis is about the processing of two contrasting structures exposed in the first part of the composition. One has more gestural character, the other is more textured. Both structures are based on a short sound of a wooden door, which, however, does not appear in its original form in the composition.
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Numerical anamorphosis

open access: yesSIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Art Papers, 2015
Anamorphoses have been know for centuries, as distorted images needing to be seen in a mirror from a special point of view in order to see the non-distorted image. During Renaissance, they have been associated to mathematical techniques for drawing such pictures efficiently, on specific mirror shapes (in the case of cylindrical or conical mirrors).
de Comite, Francesco, Grisoni, Laurent
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City Anamorphoses in Measure for Measure

open access: yesE-REA, 2013
Measure for Measure is a dark tragicomedy unusually set in a Central European city, a place which works as a palimpsest characteristic of Shakespeare’s geographical ambiguities.
Sophie CHIARI
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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott

open access: yesE-REA, 2010
Recently united to its powerful English twin sister through the 1707 Union Act, Scotland experiences a major identity crisis in the Enlightenment. Politically, religiously, and socially divided, it is led to redefine its image by rewriting history ...
Céline SABIRON
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