Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.

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Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA)

From down where the computer--or at least the computer images--are bigger than elsewhere, 59 papers cover segmentation; stereo image analysis; multiresolution, multispectral, and multidimensional analysis; biomedical and color image analysis; and features and invariants. Texts of the two keynotes are not included. A large poster session generated papers on such topics as a neural network approach to geographic image analysis, determining camera position through the Karhunen-Loeve transform, the efficient indexing of multi-color sets for content-based image retrieval, characterizing skin lesion texture in diffuse reflectance spectroscopic images, the knowledge-based extraction of roads from satellite images with one-meter resolution, detecting seat occupation inside vehicles, and segmentation by color space transformation prior to lifting and integer wavelet transformation for efficient lossless coding and transmission. Only authors are indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.