Shape grammars in computation are a specific class of production systems that generate geometric shapes. Typically, shapes are 2- or 3-dimensional, thus shape grammars are a way to study 2- and 3-dimensional languages. The foundation of shape grammars has been defined in a seminal article by George Stiny and James…
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965.…
Fort Saint Angelo (Maltese: Forti Sant’Anġlu or Fortizza Sant’Anġlu) is a bastioned fort in Birgu, Malta, located at the centre of the Grand Harbour. It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris or the Castello al Mare. It was rebuilt by the Order…
Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, created by mixing yellow and red.…
Brass rubbing was originally a largely British enthusiasm for reproducing onto paper monumental brasses – commemorative brass plaques found in churches, usually originally on the floor, from between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The concept of recording textures of things is more generally called making a rubbing. What distinguishes rubbings…
A frequent flyer programme is a type of loyalty programme run by an airline or several airlines in conjunction, rewarding frequent passengers with extras and bonuses, and providing facilities aiding air travel with the sponsoring airline or airlines. The history of modern frequent flyer programmes started in 1970s and involved…
Origami is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture. In modern usage, the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished…
Museum-apartment of Andrei Bely – a memorial apartment dedicated to the life and work of writer Boris Bugaev, known under the pseudonym Andrei Bely. Branch of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin. The Bely Museum-apartment was founded in 1993, however, the official opening of the exposition took place in September…
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official official institution responsible for the supervision of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one Spanish-speaking countries through the Association of Spanish Language Academies. The RAE is dedicated to linguistic planning by applying…
An astragal is a moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes (fillets). An astragal is sometimes referred to as a miniature torus. It can be an architectural element used at the top or base of a column, but is also employed as a framing device…
The Trajan’s Forum, also remembered as Forum Ulpium in some sources, is the largest and most monumental of the Imperial Forum of Rome, the last in chronological order. Built by the emperor Trajan with the spoils of war obtained from the conquest of Dacia, and inaugurated, according to the Ostian…
American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from about 1600 through the 19th…
The museum has decorative artefacts such as textiles, ivories, Mughal jades, silver, gold and artistic metal ware. The ivory section has artefacts dating as early as the Gupta era. It also has a collection of European paintings, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, ivory and jade artefacts. The museum also has sections…
Kamthieng House Museum’s wood carving collection – ‘Hamyon’. This intricate, carved wooden plaque above the bedroom door is considered a protective talisman for the family, dividing the private family space inside, from the public verandah space outside. Beyond this point, those who are ‘tang-phi’ (literally ‘of a different spirit’) meaning…
A pilgrimage church (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are…
La Mure is a French commune located in the department of Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. A small mid-mountain town, La Mure is the central municipality of the Plateau Matheysin. Located at an altitude of 890m, La Mure is at the heart of Dauphiné and of History., it is located…
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. The sublime is an aesthetic category, derived mainly from the famous work Περὶ…
Place Charles de Gaulle, historically known as the Place de l’Étoile, is a large road junction in Paris, France, the meeting point of twelve straight avenues including the Champs-Élysées. Paris’s historical axis cuts through the Arc de Triomphe, which stands at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle. It was…
Exhibtion of the Boryeong Yangban-Relics of the Yudang Sintaegwan Family. style and fashion of our traditional costumes in Joseon Dynasty period through excavated costumes. Chultoe-bokshic (Excavated costume) is defined costumes found during the relocation of ancestors tombs. People can infer trend of each period of Joseon from these excavated costumes.…
In photography, computing, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light, that is, it carries only intensity information. Images of this sort, also known as black-and-white or monochrome, are composed exclusively of…
Châteauneuf-Grasse is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. The village itself is located at the top of a hill, but the territory of the commune includes other hills as well as the flatter terrain of Pré-du-Lac, where homes and businesses developed in…
Post-Impressionism is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic…
Reclaimed or recycled water (also called wastewater reuse or water reclamation) is the process of converting wastewater into water that can be reused for other purposes. Reuse may include irrigation of gardens and agricultural fields or replenishing surface water and groundwater (i.e., groundwater recharge). Reused water may also be directed…
Nandalal Bose (Dec 3, 1882 – Apr 16, 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his “Indian style” of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1922. He…
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Shape grammar
Shape grammars in computation are a specific class of production systems that generate geometric shapes. Typically, shapes are 2- or 3-dimensional, thus shape grammars are a way to study 2- and 3-dimensional languages. The foundation of shape grammars has been defined in a seminal article by George Stiny and James…
Read moreKenya National Archives Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965.…
Read moreFort Saint Angelo, Il-Birgu, Malta
Fort Saint Angelo (Maltese: Forti Sant’Anġlu or Fortizza Sant’Anġlu) is a bastioned fort in Birgu, Malta, located at the centre of the Grand Harbour. It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris or the Castello al Mare. It was rebuilt by the Order…
Read moreOrange colour in culture
Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, created by mixing yellow and red.…
Read moreBrass rubbing
Brass rubbing was originally a largely British enthusiasm for reproducing onto paper monumental brasses – commemorative brass plaques found in churches, usually originally on the floor, from between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The concept of recording textures of things is more generally called making a rubbing. What distinguishes rubbings…
Read moreFrequent-flyer program guide
A frequent flyer programme is a type of loyalty programme run by an airline or several airlines in conjunction, rewarding frequent passengers with extras and bonuses, and providing facilities aiding air travel with the sponsoring airline or airlines. The history of modern frequent flyer programmes started in 1970s and involved…
Read moreOrigami
Origami is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture. In modern usage, the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished…
Read moreMemorial apartment of Andrei Bely, State A.S.Pushkin Museum Town
Museum-apartment of Andrei Bely – a memorial apartment dedicated to the life and work of writer Boris Bugaev, known under the pseudonym Andrei Bely. Branch of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin. The Bely Museum-apartment was founded in 1993, however, the official opening of the exposition took place in September…
Read moreReal Academia Española, Madrid, Spain
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official official institution responsible for the supervision of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one Spanish-speaking countries through the Association of Spanish Language Academies. The RAE is dedicated to linguistic planning by applying…
Read moreAstragal
An astragal is a moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes (fillets). An astragal is sometimes referred to as a miniature torus. It can be an architectural element used at the top or base of a column, but is also employed as a framing device…
Read moreArchaeological Area, Trajan’s Markets Museum of the Imperial Forums
The Trajan’s Forum, also remembered as Forum Ulpium in some sources, is the largest and most monumental of the Imperial Forum of Rome, the last in chronological order. Built by the emperor Trajan with the spoils of war obtained from the conquest of Dacia, and inaugurated, according to the Ostian…
Read moreAmerican colonial architecture
American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from about 1600 through the 19th…
Read moreDecorative Art, Museum of king Shivaji, India
The museum has decorative artefacts such as textiles, ivories, Mughal jades, silver, gold and artistic metal ware. The ivory section has artefacts dating as early as the Gupta era. It also has a collection of European paintings, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, ivory and jade artefacts. The museum also has sections…
Read moreHamyon Wood Carving Collection, Kamthieng House Museum
Kamthieng House Museum’s wood carving collection – ‘Hamyon’. This intricate, carved wooden plaque above the bedroom door is considered a protective talisman for the family, dividing the private family space inside, from the public verandah space outside. Beyond this point, those who are ‘tang-phi’ (literally ‘of a different spirit’) meaning…
Read morePilgrimage church
A pilgrimage church (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are…
Read moreLa Mure, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
La Mure is a French commune located in the department of Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. A small mid-mountain town, La Mure is the central municipality of the Plateau Matheysin. Located at an altitude of 890m, La Mure is at the heart of Dauphiné and of History., it is located…
Read moreSublime
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. The sublime is an aesthetic category, derived mainly from the famous work Περὶ…
Read moreGuide Tour of the area around Place de l’Étoile, Paris, France
Place Charles de Gaulle, historically known as the Place de l’Étoile, is a large road junction in Paris, France, the meeting point of twelve straight avenues including the Champs-Élysées. Paris’s historical axis cuts through the Arc de Triomphe, which stands at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle. It was…
Read moreBoryeong Yangban Folk Costume Collection, Seok Juseon Memorial Museum
Exhibtion of the Boryeong Yangban-Relics of the Yudang Sintaegwan Family. style and fashion of our traditional costumes in Joseon Dynasty period through excavated costumes. Chultoe-bokshic (Excavated costume) is defined costumes found during the relocation of ancestors tombs. People can infer trend of each period of Joseon from these excavated costumes.…
Read moreGrayscale
In photography, computing, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light, that is, it carries only intensity information. Images of this sort, also known as black-and-white or monochrome, are composed exclusively of…
Read moreChateauneuf-Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Châteauneuf-Grasse is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. The village itself is located at the top of a hill, but the territory of the commune includes other hills as well as the flatter terrain of Pré-du-Lac, where homes and businesses developed in…
Read morePost-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic…
Read moreReclaimed water
Reclaimed or recycled water (also called wastewater reuse or water reclamation) is the process of converting wastewater into water that can be reused for other purposes. Reuse may include irrigation of gardens and agricultural fields or replenishing surface water and groundwater (i.e., groundwater recharge). Reused water may also be directed…
Read moreNandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose (Dec 3, 1882 – Apr 16, 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for his “Indian style” of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1922. He…
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