Histogram preserving image transformations

Imaging technologies “transform” an object of study into something we can visually perceive in the form of an image. In science and medicine, imaging technologies enact a large variety of transformations, sometimes changing the spatiality of an object of study (e.g., making a small thing big enough to see, bringing close something far away, etc.), or changing its temporality (e.g., providing a picture of a single moment). I make use of the postphenomenological philosophical perspective, and in particular the work of its founder, Don Ihde, for guidance in exploring the different ways that imaging technologies transform our world in the process of rendering it available to visual perception. The main project of this paper is to develop a provisional categorization of a large variety of image transformations common to science and medicine.

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“Pani Yadviga” by V. Soltan: librettological aspect of the opera’s avan-text researching

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Humanitarian Series ◽

10.29235/2524-2369-2019-64-2-191-199 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 191-199

Author(s):

I. V. Pilatova

Keyword(s):

Literary Analysis ◽

Detective Story ◽

Literary Source ◽

Literature Source ◽

The Subject ◽

Image Transformations

The article is devoted to the libretological research of the opera’s avan-text of V. Soltan’s musical and theatrical work “Pani Yadviga”. The purpose of the article is to analyze the artistic level of the opera’s avan-text, represented by literature source and libretto. The tasks of the article: to make a literary analysis of Russian and Belarusian versions of the K. Tarasov’s documental story, to reveal genre and dramaturgy transformations in the libretto by S. Klimkovich. The literary analysis of the text of K. Tarasov’s story was conducted. It allowed to determine the subject, problems and the ideological world of the work. The genre of the literary source is designated as a documentary novel with elements of a detective story. The dramatic image of the characters was traced. Genre, dramaturgy, plot and image transformations were discovered in the libretto. They arose with the aim of adapting it to the demands of the musical and theatrical genre. The text of the libretto has high artistic qualities. Thanks to a well-built dramaturgy, the libretto is a qualitative basis for the composer’s interpretation.

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Mirror Image Pattern Matching By Bumble Bees

Behaviour ◽

10.1163/156853995x00306 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 132 (1-2) ◽

pp. 87-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

C.M.S. Plowright ◽

Y.G. Korneluk

Keyword(s):

Pattern Matching ◽

Honey Bees ◽

Mirror Image ◽

Bumble Bees ◽

Bombus Impatiens ◽

Artificial Flower ◽

Choice Tests ◽

Image Transformations ◽

Image Pattern

AbstractBumble bees (Bombus impatiens) were trained to discriminate between a rewarding and non-rewarding artificial flower that differed only in their configuration of four identical petals. On choice tests between 2 empty flowers, the bees chose the flower with the configuration of the rewarding flower over the mirror image, but the mirror image over a novel flower. This behaviour is the same as has been observed with honey bees and functional interpretations are considered. The problem of distinguishing between left-right pattern reversals and true mirror image transformations is discussed.

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