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Item Critiquing the Masters: Applying 3D Production Lighting Principles to Famous 2D Works of Art(2012-10-19) Ford, AngeliqueThis thesis demonstrates the effects of applying lighting principles developed for 3D computer graphics production to well-known historical 2D paintings. The visual analysis and cinematographic direction is derived from the iterative review-critique- review process used in production of 3D animated films and the imposition of a narrative purpose for re-lighting. This thesis focuses on five of the important fundamentals of lighting design, adapted and defined by Pixar Animation Studios Director of Photography Sharon Calahan in ?Storytelling Through Lighting: A Computer Graphics Perspective.? The results are 2D images that are easily recognizable as adaptations from the original paintings, but that communicate a distinctly different visual impression. Each re-lit painting serves as an example of the lighting principle employed and offers a unique viewpoint on a well-known artwork.Item Session 3I | Celebrating 100 Years of Service through Digital Collections, Primary Sources, Exhibits, and Maps: Community Story Telling through Digital Archives(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Williams, Cecilia; Grieco, Alyssa; Rivera, Terrin; Kowalski, JessicaIn 2021, the Harris County Public Library celebrates 100 years of service to the residents of the largest county in Texas. As part of its year-long celebration, HCPL launched a Digital Archive which hosts a collection of photographs, documents, scrapbooks, videos, and oral histories documenting the story of HCPL. This presentation will focus on how the Quartex platform allows us to combine primary documents with storytelling through the exhibition feature and how a custom map visualization of the over 200+ locations served by HCPL during its first 100 years makes history come alive.Item Style Transfer For Visual Storytelling A Case Study: The Hindu Mythological Character, Yamah, in the Style of the American Film Director, Tim Burton(2012-07-16) Perumalil, Ranjith ChandyIn this thesis, the concept of style transfer for visual storytelling is introduced. Style transfer for visual storytelling is the process of identifying a definitive style of a source, such as an artist or culture, and applying the features of that style to a target, such as a character which has a different style. As a proof of concept, the style of the American film director Tim Burton is transferred to a character from Hindu mythology, Yamah. The style transfer is done based on the concept of 'Pattern Language' introduced by Christopher Alexander et al., in his book, 'A Pattern Language'. A set of patterns is developed based on the source and target. The target is then designed based on the patterns. The design is then visualized in a suitable medium.Item The failure of storytelling to ground a causal theory of reference(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30) Tanksley, Charles WilliamI argue that one cannot hold a Meinongian ontology of fictional characters and have a causal theory of reference for fictional names. The main argument presented refutes Edward Zalta's claim that storytelling should be considered an extended baptism for fictional characters. This amounts to the claim that storytelling fixes the reference of fictional names in the same way that baptism fixes the reference of ordinary names, and this is just a claim about the illocutionary force of these two types of utterance. To evaluate this argument, therefore, we need both a common understanding of the Meinongian ontology and a common taxonomy of speech acts. I briefly sketch the Meinongian ontology as it is laid out by Zalta in order to meet the former condition. Then I present an interpretation of the taxonomy of illocutionary acts given by John Searle in the late 1970s and mid 1980s, within which we can evaluate Zalta's claims. With an ontology of fictional characters and a taxonomy of speech acts in place, I go on to examine the ways in which the Meinongian might argue that storytelling is an extended baptism. None of these arguments are tenable-there is no way for the act of storytelling to serve as an extended baptism. Therefore, the act of storytelling does not constitute a baptism of fictional characters; that is, storytelling fails to ground a causal chain of reference to fictional characters.