(Phys.org)—Computers are good at speed, numbers, and massive amounts of data, but understanding the content of a simple drawing is more difficult. Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of ...

The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved from archaeological strata dated to 73,000 years before the ...

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a program that can identify simple sketches of objects almost as well as humans. The computer application enables “semantic ...

Software can parse real images or skillful art, but Pictionary-like scribbles -- the way most of us draw -- are harder to understand. By Rebecca Boyle Published Sep 14, 2012 12:23 AM EDT Add Popular ...

For his Milan design week exhibition, Norwegian designer Sigve Knutson presented a series of textured objects inspired by the lines he uses in his drawings. The Drawing Objects collection, on show in ...

Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Compare and Contrast Other Artists With Hans Hofmann ...

Discover the oldest abstract drawing, a 73,000-year-old ochre design found in Blombos Cave that reflects ancient human cognition. It's a flake split from a larger piece of silcrete — a rock made from ...

Computer scientists have developed a new program that can recognize rough sketches in real time, something that up to now had been very difficult for computers to do. To make the program work, the ...