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Hi encounters, today's blog is just about the release online of a part [episode 1] of a material donated at a little library. It is organized in the following way: a brief foreword paragraph and annotations about the article, fully converted to a document format ( link ). This has to be considered as a first Episode. About 20% of the catalogue is put online, so far, at the moment, until now. Already the opening article, "Art as universal phenomenon" is proposed as a document. An outline of the document, topics and key words can help as a summary. The original article has six main parts: Civilisation and the Janus Face of Europe; Signs of the East; Dialectic Resurrection of Totem, Fetish and Idol; Encounter of Ancient Amerindian Cultures with Technological Civilization; Musical Universalism; The Unity of the World in the Vision of Art. The concluding word of the article, ART AS A MEDIATOR is kept alive, with the new perspective of more digital media, algorit...

This post for the celebration of President's Day or as a way to celebrate the President's day in North America by artgraphic-db. As a reminder: artgraphic-db has started contributions about art or ways of doing art, the media, as mentioned by some folks (artgraphic-db has no views on the wording at the moment). It was mentioned, though, that cybernetics was already talked by authors of the 1972 Olympics art industry exhibition catalogue, in the time of 1972. The website (supporting the blog supporting the website) has grown a little bit since the beginning of this blog and a webpage has been started to share material shown in the catalogue. About mandalas, some resources were blogged about online apps and artgraphic-db has written about color mixing. The 100 mandalas series book has been made available online , even if, every of the mandala, their history and their making, has not been discussed. However, the broken lines mandala and the Japanese style mandala have been intr...

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  Picking up colors from raster images This post about color picking, with eyedroppers or color picking tools. Raster images are just images in forms of arrays of pixels as manipulated by computer programs. The post is also about saying that eyedroppers can help color blind people, but, more generally, they can help every one. It is also about color mixing and color coding by using color coordinates in different color spaces. This post is also available online on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/artgraphic-db/. The contents are: A color picker can help the color blind; Color pickers and eyedroppers; Color picking subregions -introduction;  Color picking subregions -Pixel-averaging mixing method; Proportions on a basis of colors:  example of a simple HSL,RGB palette; How to use the weight-averaging formulas?;  A color picker can help the color blind I have been exposed to the question of color analysis being color blind -as a color blind person-. C...