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Author: J&ouml;rg R. J. Schirra
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From the publisher

Time and again over the last few decades, we have read that the world is full of pic- tures and that, in fact, pictures are filling up the world at such a tremendously accel- erating rate that our environment is about to become a picture itself, and of itself. However, when a phenomenon gradually occupies and transplants almost everything else, then it starts disappearing as a particular phenomenon. In order to be noticeable, something must stand out against others. Otherwise it transforms into a true medium. In saying so, we assume that media are characterized as more or less ubiquitous and inconspicuous. The less we take notice of something, the more it attains the typical property of a medium. Each individual picture is a medium in a rather shallow sense of the word. The realm of pictures is a medium in a deeper sense, much in the same way as the individual morning paper, as a medium, relates to the institution of the printing press. It seems safe to say that the iconic (or pictorial) turn that many talk about is strongly tied to the proliferation and almost ubiquity of digital media, which, in turn, is a consequence of the spreading of computers at the work place.

First line

Images take a rather prominent place in contemporary life in the western societies.

From the rear cover

A few years ago, the department of computer science of the University of Magdeburg developed a completely new diploma programme called 'computational visualistics', a curriculum dealing with all aspects of computational pictures. So far, only isolated aspects had been studied in computer science, particularly in the independent domains of computer graphics, image processing, information visualization, and computer vision. Is there indeed a coherent domain of research behind such a curriculum? The answer depends on a data structure that acts as a mediator between general visualistics and computer science: the data structure "image". J�rg R. J. Schirra investigates that data structure, its components, and its application conditions, and elaborates the very foundations of computational visualistics as a unique and homogeneous field of research. Before concentrating on the data structure, the author closely examines the theory of pictures in general and the definition of pictures as perceptoid signs in particular. He includes an act-theoretic consideration of resemblance as the crucial link between image and object, the communicative function of context building as the central concept for comparing pictures and language, and several modes of reflection underlying the relation between image and image user.

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Title Foundation of Computational Visualistics
Author Jorg R. J. Schirra
Binding unknown
Language ENG
Publisher Deutscher Universit��tsverlag
Date 2005
ISBN 9783835060159

About the author

PD Dr. Jrg R. J. Schirra studierte Informatik, Physik, Philosophie und Psychologie an der Universitt des Saarlandes. Nach einem lngeren Forschungsaufenthalt in Berkeley habilitierte er sich an der Fakultt fr Informatik der Universitt Magdeburg.