Silhouette

inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We hypothesized that reaction time would be higher in the no label condition than the incongruent label condition. To test our hypothesis we used a repeated measures design and conducted out…

One fact that recalls my attention is the amount of different silhouettes, styles and trends that were used in the 1950. Several designers with totally different perspectives and ideas from this era were: Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. Among this mentioned where so many others that created unique clothe in their own styles, but I would focus this research paper in just two of them. Cristobal Balenciaga which is known as “the King of Fashion” was a Spanish’s…

1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, the Ku Klux Klan placed a bomb on the front steps of the church, killing 4 little girls and severely injuring another (16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) (U.S. National Park Service)). The silhouettes represent…

with a silhouette of, supposedly his little brother, riding a rocking…

horizontal line or vertical line of a cross was longer. The experiment consisted of two parts; the first was designed to indicate whether an attentional preference existed, and whether or not the emphasis would be put on stick figures of bodies, or silhouettes of hands, bodies and objects.…

narrator’s description of ‘tableau.’ In the same manner that a tableau is “a representation,” the townspeople, similarly, have only a portrayal of Miss Emily’s character and this is seen through textual references made to her in silhouette (Faulkner 1350). Like a silhouette, Miss Emily’s identity is “an outline” to which the town lacks a complete image (OED 1). This deficit to clear characterization is created through the withdrawal of Miss Emily into her house where she goes unseen for…

Kara Walker. She wanted to become an artist because as a child she remembers sitting on her Fathers lap and just sitting there and watching her father draw. Something about that made her realize that she wanted to be an artist. She is known for her silhouette pieces. Her pieces focus on a singular point in history. Most of those are pieces on slavery. As she said about her work “A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected…that unexpected…

In all its guises, design’s intention is to portray... to represent something for a viewer to decode, to connect a signifier to a signified. For this subject’s major project, I chose to pursue the visual medium of film posters. Inspired by my font, Curved’s design — which has a certain space-age, 1960s feel to it — I looked at creating film posters for, initially a 1969 “Doctor Who” story The Seeds of Death then, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The latter, being a seminal piece…

existing Gait representations capture both motion and appearance information which are sensitive to changes in various conditions such as carrying and clothing. Here proposed new method for gait recognition where in this method the firstly binary silhouette of a walking person is detected from each frame and secondly the feature from each frame is extracted…

calculated the compass direction of the moon, it quickly became obvious how Stonewall Jackson would have been seen as a dark silhouette”. This shows scientific calculations that compass direction of the Moon made Stonewall Jackson appear as a dark silhouette. From this text you can start to visualize and understand how the direction of the Moon made Jackson appear as a dark silhouette, which made the Confederate Army shoot him by…