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Making Aesthetic Choices
(1979-03-01)
A framework is presented for making choices that are primarily constrained by aesthetic, as opposed to, pragmatic considerations. An example of the application of this framework is a computer system called "Ani", capable ...
Logo Music Projects: Experiments in Musical Perception and Design
(1979-05-01)
This memo gives a series of experiments which one can use to get a better understanding of how music works and how music is apprehended by an active and knowing listener. It does so by using the children's computer ...
Some Properties of Discontinuities in the Image Irradiance Equation
(1979-04-01)
The image irradiance equation is a first order partial differential equation. Part of this paper is a "comprehensive" guide to solving this kind of equation. The special structure of the image irradiance equation is ...
Directional Selectivity and Its Use in Early Visual Processing
(1979-06-01)
The construction of directionally selective units and their use in the processing of visual motion are considered.
Theory of Edge Detection
(1979-04-01)
A theory of edge detection is presented.
An Overview of a Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language
(1979-07-01)
Assume that the syntax of natural language can be parsed by a left-to-right deterministic mechanism without facilities for parallelism or backup. It will be shown that this "determinism" hypothesis, explored within the ...
Specifying and Proving Properties of Guardians for Distributed Systems
(1979-06-01)
In a distributed system where many processors are connected by a networ and communicate using message passing, many users can be allowed to access the same facilities. A public utility is usually an expensive or limited ...
An Application of the Photometric Stereo Method
(1979-08-01)
The orientation of patches on the surface of an object can be determined from multiple images taken with different illuminations, but from the same viewing position. This method, referred to as photometric stereo, can ...
Computer Aided Evolutionary Design for Software Engineering
(1979-01-01)
We report on a partially implemented interactive computer aided design tool for software engineering. A distinguishing characteristic of our project is its concern for the evolutionary character of software systems. ...
Evidence for a Fifth, Smaller Channel in Early Human Vision
(1979-08-01)
Recent studies in psychophysics and neurophysiology suggest that the human visual system utilizes a range of different size or spatial frequency tuned mechanisms in its processing of visual information. It has been ...