Researchers say they have created a quantitative way to assess “creativity” in works of art that they argue comes close to a scholarly assessment. Ahmed Elgammal and Babak Saleh (The Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University) used 1,710 paintings available on Artchive.com and ran them through their algorithm that looked…
Great news from Google – the Pro version of Google Earth is now free! Features in Pro that were not in Google Earth include the ability to compute distances and area with built-in measurement tools, and to print high resolution images. Learn more, and download, here. When installing, use your email address and the key…
Earlier this month, ArchDaily published “Which Architectural Software Should You Be Using?” (originally published on ArchSmarter as “Which architectural software is right for me?”), where author Michael Kilkelly works through factors that could influence your decision to select and learn architectural software and, with the added help of a platform-based flowchart, offers a list of applications…
The digital image of Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante (o/c, 2006) by Chinese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, comes with more than dozens of “influential people” from world history. It is also interactive, as the figures (and some of the objects and creatures) have all been tagged — roll the cursor over…
A few years ago we posted on an online tool called Thinglink, which facilitates the annotation of online images. It’s got great potential for study pages and student projects so we thought it was worth re-visiting with these examples. Instructors and students can get free accounts. In addition to adding text annotations, you can add…
The Dallas Museum of Art has begun its digital database redesign for online access to the Museum’s entire collection of more than 22,000 objects. The DMA asserts this ongoing project will create “one of the world’s most sophisticated online art collections” that will offer not only high-resolution images, but “whenever permitted by existing agreements, the…