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Improverts

The Improverts is a improvisational comedy troupe from the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, which primarily performs at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh. They perform weekly during Edinburgh University's term time and every night during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

History
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company's improvised comedy troupe now known as The Improverts was founded in Edinburgh in 1989 by Canadian-born Toph Marshall. He named it Theatresports after the form of competitive improvisation developed by director Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1976. As the show grew in popularity the name was changed, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, (for copyright reasons) to Impro-Vegetables and then finally, in the 90s, to The Improverts. The Improverts was adopted as a permanent, year-round name from September 1997 onwards.

Since the show's inception it has kept the Bedlam Theatre as its primary performance space, running weekly during Edinburgh University's term time and then at the Edinburgh Fringe. Each year new players are recruited largely, though not exclusively, from the student population though every player must be a member of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. The troupe provides free weekly workshops in improvisation for the general public in order to attract new talent to the group.

Carrying on the teachings of Keith Johnstone, the show's format has changed over time, but stayed within the short-form sketch mould similar to TV's Whose Line is it Anyway?.

Current activities
During term time, the Improverts play weekly at Bedlam Theatre, and hold weekly free improvisation workshops for the general public.

Notable alumni of the Improverts

 * Maria Bamford (Arrested Development, The Comedians of Comedy)
 * Mitch Benn (The Now Show, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music)
 * Jenny Colgan (Amanda's Wedding, Looking for Andrew McCarthy, West End Girls)
 * Mark Dolan (Balls of Steel)
 * Miles Jupp (Rev, Miles Jupp's Real World)
 * Humphrey Ker (The Brothers Faversham, Fast and Loose)
 * Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Tinderbox)
 * Ewen MacIntosh (The Office)
 * Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Dog Soldiers, Rome, Grey's Anatomy)
 * David Reed (The Brothers Faversham, It's Kevin)
 * Al Smith (Enola, The Cut)
 * Thom Tuck (The Brothers Faversham)

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eureka seven
hey, this is dposse from the ASMB. Let's discuss our changes before we do them, ok? Use wikipedia or AIM to comunicate. Adult Swim is not safe. too many morons who have nothing better to do than spam things up. dposse 01:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Look, you have to be careful about what you do on wikipedia. Those new articles you created might be a good idea, but they might be deleted soon. you should have waited. dposse 01:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The media section should be moved back into the main article. Since it is spoiler free, it is pointless for it to have its own article. dposse 03:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Please be more careful in the future. You deleted a good third of the Eureka Seven article. 24.24.178.61 06:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, really? The parts weren't deleted, just moved! I mean, look at how Jak and Daxter's articles are split up. All the characters have a separate page! Zhane Masaki 13:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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 * Oi, oi...what's with deleting this page? I find it quite useful, especially considering how hard he worked on it! Trust me, its a useful page, just merge it into a mecha article! --Zhane Masaki (talk) 08:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

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Would you mind not changing the British spellings of words to your American spelling? It's rather insulting. I'm thinking of Evangeline Lilly specifically. The word is just as valid. 207.206.246.107 18:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello anonymous user,

 * I changed the spelling of "programme" because it refers to David Letterman's show, which is an American show in an American context in the article. I'm boldly changing it back, because again, no one in the U.S. would spell it that way, and Lilly is known in the States as well parts of "the empire." Have a nice day! Telestylo 20:57, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm in the U.S. and I spell it that way. You're quite rude.  172.138.91.59 17:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Carson
My source on all this was from watching the show regularly for years, although somewhere among my hundreds of old VHS tapes is that Carnac skit I mention where he most definitely says "shit" - you can read his lips. There was also an occasion in which he was interviewing I believe Stephanie Zimbalist and for reasons unknown the phrase "go piss in your hat" (or some variation thereof) was uttered and as I recall it came out sounding like "go bounder bish". It's quite possible (especially since it's mentioned on the DVD) that Carson did things like the "fiddlesticks" fake censoring, but when real swearing occurred, at least in the 1980s era shows I watched religiously, they also garbled it. Cheers! 23skidoo 14:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't see any reason why both points can't be included. The DVD trivia has to be taken into account and mostly "fake censorship" was a policy but they used the technology when genuine profanity occurred on the show. 23skidoo 14:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

AfDs
Hi Telestylo. I've replied to your message on my talk page. (Normally, I'd reply here, but I did a bunch of replies all at once.) -Splash talk 21:11, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Just to clarify...
Hi Telestylo, just to clarify our policy on spelling.

Please see Spelling.

In short the rule is that use US spelling for US articles, English spelling for UK & Commonwealth articles, and for a page that isn't about either, the spelling stays with the system in which the page was originally written. Don't change the existing spelling, it's rude and you have better things to do. — Dunc|☺ 22:23, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

"Personal attacks"

 * the most recent of which have been naked personal attacks on me

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Cut vs Navigation
Both the above terms are used for canals used for transportation.

Am I right in thinking that a navigation roughly follows the course of an existing river (and may utilise navigable stretches of the river), whilst a cut joins two different canals/rivers - eg across the Pennines?

According to OED Vol. VII page 49 Navigation sense 1b: "Inland navigation, communication by means of canals and navigable rivers." According to OED Vol. VII page 49 Navigation sense 7a: "A natural inland channel. Obsolete." According to OED Vol. VII page 49 Navigation sense 7b: "A canal or other artificial waterway. Now dialectal"Seniorsag 17:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Correct in what you say about a "Navigation" (at least in England, don't know about anywhere else). But in England, the artificial sections connecting two sections of the same navigable river are often called "cut" (eg on the Calder and Hebble Navigation).

Eurocentric
All the canals images are from Europe. Which one can I replace? --dlatimer 13:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

merge with Channel (geography).
Not really canals have a seperate history and are generaly viewed as seperate to channels such as the River Brue and other drains on the Somerset Levels.Geni 20:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

It is inappropriate to use the term channel and canal interchangably, at least contextually. The content of this article primarily focuses upon the concept of a transportation canal. Added disambiguation may be necessary so as to render a canal article for irrigation conveyance canals, which are a distinctly separate affair from those mentioned here. Ares0524 19:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the USGS classifies placenames into 20 or 30 types, like stream, bay, island, lake, populated place, etc. One feature type is "canal" and another is "channel". Their definitions: from: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm
 * canal - manmade waterway used by watercraft or for drainage, irrigation, mining, or water power (ditch, lateral).
 * channel - linear deep part of a body of water through which the main volume of water flows and is frequently used as aroute for watercraft (passage, reach, strait, thoroughfare, throughfare).

Some examples: Gastineau Channel and Santa Barbara Channel, vs. Erie Canal, etc. Of course specific placenames never fall neatly into categories and there are always exceptions, as with Hood Canal, which is neither a canal nor a channel! Pfly 04:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge would be inappropriate as the two terms differ in meaning, I am removing merge tag --- Safemariner 17:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

According to OED 1:st edition Vol 2 C page 59 Canal sense 6: "An artificial watercourse constructed to unite rivers, lakes, or seas, and serve the purposes of inland navigation. ( The chief modern sense, which tends to influence all others)" First citation 1673. According to OED 1:st edition Vol 2 C page 270 Cannel sense I: "A channel of running water, or the like" Subsense 1,2,3 and 4 is appropriate here. Subsense 5 identical meaning as canal but obsolete. Keep them separate.Seniorsag 17:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Knallgas
Mispronounciation is an extremely tenuous arguement for inclusion in the "See also" links. When searching Wikipedia for "canal gas" many other articles come up, this article is not on the first page. Inclusion of "Knallgas" on the Canal (disambiguation) page is probably the most appropriate action here? Possibly, a redirect from "canal gas" to "Oxyhydrogen" might be appropriate. Zue Jay (talk)  15:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Knallgas is now a redirect page to Microbial metabolism, which is the only usage I can find in English, should anyone want to put it onto the disam page.--Old Moonraker 15:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I tried working it into the disambig page - I just don't know enough about the term (in English or German). If someone's looking up a German word in the English version, they're gonna have a tough time no matter what in trying to find it. Zue Jay (talk)  16:46, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Mars
Perhaps a brief discussion of the etymology of the words "canal" and "channel" is appropriate here, under the seciton linking to "Canals on Mars"? 2Misters 02:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Assessment
This article is currently rated as B-class, ie incomplete in certain aspects or in need of substantial editing. It would be helpful if editors (preferably those who have assessed it) could make suggestions as to how it could be improved. Physchim62 (talk) 17:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well for a start only the Canal section (1 ref) and two subsections in Canal section have references - lots for refs are needed to satisfy the requirement for WP:Verifiability. Have a look at some GA-Class (such as Bristol Harbour) or FA-Class articles to see what has been achieved elsewhere.Pyrotec (talk) 01:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Cities on water: Liverpool
After recent additions the material relating to Liverpool Docks seems longer than the main article itself, and too detailed for this world-wide overview. Some of the material, such as "The city of Liverpool is merging into a semi canal based city" is uncited, or even unlikely, given the city's area of 112 km2 and Merseyrail urban network. Suggest using WP:SS as next step. --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:52, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:32, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Modern uses
Something is wrong with start of first sentence. Is it missing?--Palapa (talk) 00:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

 * It was I've fixed it.©Geni 01:00, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Split the article
The article should concentrate on canal=artificial waterway for vessels and anything about a canal=artificial waterway for moving water should be moved to Aqueduct. R4emember Wikipedia is not a dictionary: we don't need an article about the word canal, we need articles about concepts: a ditch for ships, a ditch for moving water.Nankai (talk) 20:04, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose: The problem with the definition you give is that frequently canals served both purposes, e.g. the James River and Kanawha Canal, Pawtucket Canal, etc. were used to power quite a number of mills. See talk page on aqueduct. The issue is more that the intro could be rewritten to better reflect the underlying concept that a canal has two major purposes, rather than two major types: the underlying definition is a high-volume (vs. say a ditch) flat artificial watercourse dug into the ground.Morgan Riley (talk) 01:46, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose: The main emphasis is already on navigation and the link to aqueduct in the lead is useful to send people there. In fact the aqueduct article is itself in the process of reorganization and material can't go to what is now a disambiguation page. However I'm quite happy that the Power Canal section be moved to Aqueduct (watercourse). Chris55 (talk) 12:02, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Types of canal crossing
I removed the new section titled "Types of canal crossing" for the time being. The section as added appears unclear, is unsourced and may well include original research. Some of the statements are misleading at best. Perhaps someone can clean it up. Orenburg1 (talk) 16:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Casiquiare river
Not really sure where to bring this up, but if canals are by definition man-made, why is the Casiquiare river referred to as a natural canal? --  oKto  siTe   talk 18:49, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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channel dug into a still-existing lake
The relatively shallow Lake Okeechobee has an artificial deep channel called the "rim canal" (Lake Okeechobee).

Currently this "canal" article seems to define "canal" in a way that excludes such artifical channels dug into a still-existing lake.

Is the "canal" article currently correct, and the so-called "rim canal" is a misnomer (like many other non-canal waterways with "canal" in their name)? If so, what is the name of this other kind of artificial channel?

Is "rim canal" actually a canal, and the "canal" article definition should be updated to include such artificial channels dug into a still-existing lake?

--DavidCary (talk) 23:02, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

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Stanko Prek

Stanko Prek (1915, Solkan near Nova Gorica – 1999, Ljubljana) was a classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia.

He studied first in Ljubljana and then the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where he received his degree in classical guitar in 1941. In 1944 he finished composition studies with Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.

Stanko Prek was the first guitar professor at the Muzička akademija - Zagreb, Croatia (1), but also taught in Maribor and Ljubljana.

He made numerous publications, including compositions, arrangements and music theory books.

Principal works

 * Symphony in C sharp minor (1951)
 * Nocturne for symphony orchestra (1944)
 * Youth Suite for strings (1959)
 * String Quartet in G major (1966)
 * Nocturne for guitar (1950)
 * Three Hundred Folk Tunes, an anthology of folk songs (1964)
 * Pozdrav iz daljine (Greeting from Afar) for male choir (1954)
 * Pomladna pesem (Spring Song) for youth choir (1957)
 * Serenade for voice and guitar (or piano) (1946)

Classical guitar method

 * Klasična Kitara - Šola 1 (Državna založba Slovenije)
 * Klasična Kitara - Šola 2 (Državna založba Slovenije)
 * further publications are published by Državna založba Slovenije

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Beethoven did break musical rules in the service of beauty, whereas nowadays there are many who break them for very different reasons (and there are others, who are not even familiar with the rules).

A state of chaos has occurred in music, and it was caused by ignorance. Goethe’s thought had forewarned us: Nothing is more frightful than ignorance, when it becomes operative!

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Hi Freshprince,

Thank you for your contributions to football-related articles, and a warm welcome to WikiProject Football. Hope you enjoy yourself editing and being here. The WikiProject Football has recently started a sub-project on Non-league football. It is in the development stage, and we're looking for ideas, suggestions, and of course, participation. Thought you might be interested in it. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 12:51, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Freshprince, when you make amendments to non-league club pages, such as adding templates, could you mark up what you have done in the edit summary to make it easier for others who are "watching" that page to see what has been changed ? - fchd 07:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, sorry, I keep forgetting to do that, maybe your message might make me do it more now! -Freshprince 09:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you for your entry on Christian Renaldo talk page. As I am sure you are aware reaching concensus is a big part of the concept of Wikipedia. You stated that you 'had to have your say', well you did indeed do that however the personal attack wasnt warrented.

Now that you have had a chance to vent your angst I hope we can all get back to working towards a professional online encyclopedia free of nationalism and bias.

Regards Adam777 22:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)\

 * FreshPrince - dont worry about it, thanks for the message. Its all water under the bridge. I'm more of a rugby fan than football and  spent the day looking up some of the players involved past histories - I cant say that either of them are blameless. Still  things should look up now you are rid of Sven.

All the best - Adam777 15:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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Image tracing

In computer graphics, image tracing, raster-to-vector conversion or raster vectorization is the conversion of raster graphics into vector graphics.

Background

An image does not have any structure: it is just a collection of marks on paper, grains in film, or pixels in a bitmap. While such an image is useful, it has some limits. If the image is magnified enough, its artifacts appear. The halftone dots, film grains, and pixels become apparent. Images of sharp edges become fuzzy or jagged. See, for example, pixelation. Ideally, a vector image does not have the same problem. Edges and filled areas are represented as mathematical curves or gradients, and they can be magnified arbitrarily (though of course the final image must also be rasterized in to be rendered, and its quality depends on the quality of the rasterization algorithm for the given inputs).

The task in vectorization is to convert a two-dimensional image into a two-dimensional vector representation of the image. It is not examining the image and attempting to recognize or extract a three-dimensional model that may be depicted; i.e. it is not a vision system. For most applications, vectorization also does not involve optical character recognition; characters are treated as lines, curves, or filled objects without attaching any significance to them. In vectorization, the shape of the character is preserved, so artistic embellishments remain.

Vectorization is the inverse operation corresponding to rasterization, as integration is to differentiation. And, just as with these other two operations, while rasterization is fairly straightforward and algorithmic, vectorization involves the reconstruction of lost information and therefore requires heuristic methods.

Synthetic images such as maps, cartoons, logos, clip art, and technical drawings are suitable for vectorization. Those images could have been originally made as vector images because they are based on geometric shapes or drawn with simple curves.

Continuous tone photographs (such as live portraits) are not good candidates for vectorization.

The input to vectorization is an image, but an image may come in many forms such as a photograph, a drawing on paper, or one of several raster file formats. Programs that do raster-to-vector conversion may accept bitmap formats such as TIFF, BMP and PNG.

The output is a vector file format. Common vector formats are SVG, DXF, EPS, EMF and AI.

Vectorization can be used to update images or recover work. Personal computers often come with a simple paint program that produces a bitmap output file. These programs allow users to make simple illustrations by adding text, drawing outlines, and filling outlines with a specific color. Only the results of these operations (the pixels) are saved in the resulting bitmap; the drawing and filling operations are discarded. Vectorization can be used to recapture some of the information that was lost.

Vectorization is also used to recover information that was originally in a vector format but has been lost or has become unavailable. A company may have commissioned a logo from a graphic arts firm. Although the graphics firm used a vector format, the client company may not have received a copy of that format. The company may then acquire a vector format by scanning and vectorizing a paper copy of the logo.

Process

Vectorization starts with an image.

Manual
The image can be vectorized manually. A person could look at the image, make some measurements, and then write the output file by hand. That was the case for the vectorization of a technical illustration about neutrinos. The illustration has a few geometric shapes and a lot of text; it was relatively easy to convert the shapes, and the SVG vector format allows the text (even subscripts and superscripts) to be entered easily.

The original image did not have any curves (except for the text), so the conversion is straightforward. Curves make the conversion more complicated. Manual vectorization of complicated shapes can be facilitated by the tracing function built into some vector graphics editing programs.

If the image is not yet in machine readable form, then it has to be scanned into a usable file format.

Once there is a machine-readable bitmap, the image can be imported into a graphics editing program (such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, or Inkscape). Then a person can manually trace the elements of the image using the program's editing features. Curves in the original image can be approximated with lines, arcs, and Bézier curves. An illustration program allows spline knots to be adjusted for a close fit. Manual vectorization is possible, but it can be tedious.

Although graphics drawing programs have been around for a long time, artists may find the freehand drawing facilities awkward even when a drawing tablet is used. Instead of using a program, Pepper recommends making an initial sketch on paper. Instead of scanning the sketch and tracing it freehand in the computer, Pepper states: "Those proficient with a graphic tablet and stylus could make the following changes directly in CorelDRAW by using a scan of the sketch as an underlay and drawing over it. I prefer to use pen and ink, and a light table"; most of the final image was traced by hand in ink. Later the line-drawing image was scanned at 600 dpi, cleaned up in a paint program, and then automatically traced with a program. Once the black and white image was in the graphics program, some other elements were added and the figure was colored.

Similarly, Ploch recreated a design from a digital photograph. The JPEG was imported and some "basic shapes" were traced by hand and colored in the graphics drawing program; more complex shapes were handled differently. Ploch used a bitmap editor to remove the background and crop the more complex image components. He then printed the image and traced it by hand onto tracing paper to get a clean black and white line drawing. That drawing was scanned and then vectorized with a program.

Automatic
Some programs automate the vectorization process. Example programs are Adobe Streamline (discontinued), Corel's PowerTRACE, and Potrace. Some of these programs have a command line interface while others are interactive that allow the user to adjust the conversion settings and view the result. Adobe Streamline is not only an interactive program, but it also allows a user to manually edit the input bitmap and the output curves. Corel's PowerTRACE is accessed through CorelDRAW; CorelDRAW can be used to modify the input bitmap and edit the output curves. Adobe Illustrator has a facility to trace individual curves.

Automated programs can have mixed results. A program (PowerTRACE) was used to convert a PNG map to SVG. The program did a good job on the map boundaries (the most tedious task in the tracing) and the settings dropped out all the text (small objects). The text was manually re-inserted.

Other conversions may not go as well. The results depend on having high-quality scans, reasonable settings, and good algorithms.

Scanned images often have a lot of noise. The bitmap image may need a lot of work to clean it up. Erase stray marks and fill in lines and areas.

Corel advice: Put the image on a light table, cover it with vellum (tracing paper), and then manually ink the desired outlines. Then scan the vellum and use an automated raster-to-vector conversion program on that scan.

Options

There are many different image styles and possibilities, and no single vectorization method works well on all images. Consequently, vectorization programs have many options that influence the result.

One issue is what the predominant shapes are. If the image is of a fill-in form, then it will probably have just vertical and horizontal lines of a constant width. The program's vectorization should take that into account. On the other hand, a CAD drawing may have lines at any angle, there may be curved lines, and there may be several line weights (thick for objects and thin for dimension lines). Instead of (or in addition to) curves, the image may contain outlines filled with the same color. Adobe Streamline allows users to select a combination of line recognition (horizontal and vertical lines), centerline recognition, or outline recognition. Streamline also allows small outline shapes to be thrown out; the notion is such small shapes are noise. The user may set the noise level between 0 and 1000; an outline that has fewer pixels than that setting is discarded.

Another issue is the number of colors in the image. Even images that were created as black on white drawings may end up with many shades of gray. Some line-drawing routines employ anti-aliasing; a pixel completely covered by the line will be black, but a pixel that is only partially covered will be gray. If the original image is on paper and is scanned, there is a similar result: edge pixels will be gray. Sometimes images are compressed (e.g., JPEG images), and the compression will introduce gray levels.

Many of the vectorization programs will group same-color pixels into lines, curves, or outlined shapes. If each possible color is grouped into its object, there can be an enormous number of objects. Instead, the user is asked to select a finite number of colors (usually less than 256), the image is reduced to using that many colors (this step is color quantization), and then the vectorization is done on the reduced image. For continuous tone images such as photographs, the result of color quantization is posterization. Gradient fills will also be posterized.

Reducing the number of colors in an image is often aided by a histogram. The most common colors may be selected as the representatives, and other colors are mapped to their closest representative. When the number of colors is set to two, the user may be asked to make threshold and contrast settings. A contrast setting looks for significant changes in pixel color rather than a particular color; consequently, it may ignore the gradual color variations in a gradient fill. Once the outline has been extracted, the user can manually reintroduce the gradient fill.

The vectorization program will want to group a region of the same color into a single object. It can do that by making the region boundary exactly follow the pixel boundaries, but the result will be a boundary of often short orthogonal lines. The resulting conversion will also have the same pixelation problems that a bitmap has when it is magnified. Instead, the vectorization program needs to approximate the region boundary with lines and curves that closely follow the pixel boundaries but are not exactly the pixel boundaries. A tolerance parameter tells the program how closely it should follow the pixel boundaries.

The end result of many vectorization programs are curves consisting of cubic Bézier curves. A region boundary is approximated with several curve segments. To keep a curve smooth, the joints of two curves are constrained so the tangents match. One problem is determining where a curve bends so sharply that it should not be smooth. The smooth portions of a curve are then approximated with a Bézier curve fitting procedure. Successive division may be used. Such a fitting procedure tries to fit the curve with a single cubic curve; if the fit is acceptable, then the procedure stops. Otherwise, it selects some advantageous point along the curve and breaks the curve into two parts. It then fits the parts while keeping the joint tangent. If the fit is still unacceptable, then it breaks the curve into more parts.

Some vectorizers are standalone programs, but many have interactive interfaces that allow a user to adjust the program parameters and quickly see the result. PowerTRACE, for example, can display the original image and preview the converted image so the user may compare them; the program also reports information such as the number of curves.

Example
On the right is an illustration showing the operation of the radula in mollusks. The upper portion is mostly a one-pen-width filled outline diagram, but it has a mesh gradient fill along the bottom of the shell and along the bottom of the food. It also has some artistic brushes on the upper left of the shell. The bottom portion of the illustration has four line weights and some small characters; the color fill is simple except for a gradient at the jagged lines.

The 531×879 pixel image was traced; 50 colors were used. Most (if not all) lines were lost; they were turned into black regions, and their effective line widths varied. The black outline around the blue food in the upper part disappeared. The gradient fills and brushed spots were lost to color quantization/posterization; some brush spots disappeared. Some letters survived the vectorization with distortion, but most letters were discarded. Losing the letters is not a big issue; post conversion editing would want to delete the annotation and replace it with text rather than curves. Thin lines crossing at a shallow angle made filled regions, and intersecting outlines of filled regions became confused; see lower right corner. The tracing also has some odd features. Many black outlines touch, so they become large, complicated, objects rather than just outlines for specific regions. Instead of just a background, a rectangular white region separates the two outlined rectangles. The objects labeled op, rp, and rr are not simple layered shapes; the desired result would have rr overlaid by rp which is overlaid by op.

Usage domains

 * In computer-aided design (CAD) drawings (blueprints etc.) are scanned, vectorized, and written as CAD files in a process called paper-to-CAD conversion or drawing conversion.
 * In geographic information systems (GIS) satellite or aerial images are vectorized to create maps.
 * In graphic design and photography, graphics can be vectorized for easier usage and resizing.
 * Vectorization is often the first step in OCR solutions for handwritten text or signatures.

Vectorization is effective on single colored, nongradient input data, like signatures.

Continuous tone images
Vectorization is usually inappropriate for continuous tone images such as portraits. The result is often poor. For example, many different image tracing algorithms were applied to a 25 kB JPEG image. The resulting vector images are at least a factor of ten larger and may have pronounced posterization effects when a small number of colors are used.

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WOB

WOB may refer to:

 * Wob, an online bookseller - formerly known as World of Books
 * Wolfsburg (German vehicle license plate code)
 * Woburn Sands railway station (National Rail code)
 * Anderson Regional Transportation Center (Amtrak station code)
 * White On Black, a colour scheme used frequently in tabloid newspaper headlines (see Light-on-dark color scheme)
 * Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre
 * Weight on bit, the amount of downward force exerted on the drill bit
 * Work of breathing, medical term for the effort to move air through the lungs
 * World of Beer, a chain of restaurants in the United States
 * World of Books, a British second-hand book retailer

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Queensland Art Gallery

The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only 150 m away.

The Queensland Art Gallery is owned and operated by the Government of Queensland, which created the institution in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery.

History
The gallery was established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery. Throughout its early history the gallery was housed in a series of temporary premises. In the 1960s it shared premises with the Queensland Museum. Sir Leon Trout, a businessman and art collector, initiated a plan to include an art gallery in a proposed Queensland Cultural Centre in South Brisbane. The first stage of the monumental Robin Gibson-designed Queensland Cultural Centre opened on Brisbane's South Bank in 1982. The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) was established in 2006 which lead to the creation of a two-campus institution. In 2014, over 10 million people had visited both the sites since the establishment of GOMA. The Queensland Art Gallery was listed as a State Heritage Place in 2015.

The first painting acquired by the gallery in 1896 was Evicted, by the British painter Blandford Fletcher. Although it was the gallery's most popular picture, it was controversially retired from public display in 1949 by the newly appointed director, Robert Campbell, who declared that it was only popular "because it had a sentimental touch".

Design

The Queensland Art Gallery was considered to be a building of its time for it incorporated the best techniques and materials available within the economic limits of the project. It was also the first major building to be built on the south side of the river adjacent to the new Victoria Bridge, which established a benchmark of scale and quality for future buildings.

The Queensland Art Gallery is a 4700 square metre display space broken down with walls and barriers that interchange between the art world and the public. The walls have been placed purposely to create flow and change of course of the viewer's journey. The primary orientation element of the Gallery's design is the Watermall that separates the tranquil environment of the exhibition galleries from the proactive environments of the administration, public programs and education areas. The varying ceilings heights and floor levels, colour and textured surfaces enhance variety and define the sequence of display areas. The entrance foyer efficiently acts as a hub for the public circulation and main access point for arrivals and departures for all visitors where they are able to select which collections they plan to visit. The buildings use of light coloured and maintenance free materials such as cement reflect and adapt to the Mediterranean- like quality of Brisbane's sub tropical climate.

In 2004 the Queensland Art Gallery (completed in 1982) was awarded the '25 Year Award', now known as the Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture by the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.

Collection
The gallery's collection includes a number of significant artworks, including the popular:

 * La Belle Hollandaise (1905) by Pablo Picasso
 * Under the Jacaranda (1903) by Richard Godfrey Rivers

Indigenous art
The Gallery is committed to profiling Indigenous Australian art and strengthening relationships with Queensland's Indigenous communities.

Exhibitions

 * California Design 1930–1965: Living in a Modern World (2 November 2013–9 February 2014)
 * Quilts 1700–1945 (15 June–22 September 2013)
 * Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado (21 July–4 November 2012).
 * Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones (27 March–27 June 2010)
 * American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met (30 May–20 September 2009)

Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
The Gallery's flagship project is the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series of exhibitions, now a major event on the national and international arts calendar. The expertise developed since APT1 in 1993 in staging the Triennial has led to the establishment of the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art (ACAPA), to foster alliances, scholarship and publishing, and the formation of an internationally significant collection of art from the Asia Pacific region. The 7th Triennial featured Ressort, a giant snake skeleton sculpture by Huang Yong Ping at the gallery's watermall. This work was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery in 2012.

Art for children
The Gallery is also recognised as an international leader in presenting innovative museum-based learning programs for children. These programs are coordinated through the Children's Art Centre. Developing youth audiences for visual art is another priority for the Gallery.

 * Now is the Time (2 May 2020–26 January 2021)
 * Below the Tide Line (7 December 2019–3 May 2020)
 * Island Fashion (10 August 2019–15 March 2020)
 * APT9 Kids (29 April–16 June 2019)
 * Ben Quilty: Family Portrait (15 June–20 October 2019)
 * Patricia Piccinini: Curious Creatures (24 March–5 August 2018)
 * Tony Albert: We can be Heroes ( 19 May–7 October 2018)

Regional Queensland
To ensure all Queenslanders have access to the collection, travelling exhibitions tour to regional centres and remote parts of the state.

Governance
The Gallery's governing body is a board of trustees appointed by the Queensland Government, and it is managed by an Executive Management Team. The current director is Chris Saines.

Opening hours
Open daily 10.00am to 5.00pm. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday. Open from 12 noon ANZAC day.

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Talk:Dru Down

PICTURE
I don't mean to be rude but this page is whack. Why is the picture for Dru Down a picture of a LUNIZ ALBUM COVER. This is completely retarded! If no one has a DRU DOWN album cover, then DON'T PUT UP A PIC AT ALL! Why in the world would you put up and album cover of a completely different artist? Just because Luniz worked with Dru Down on a few songs? Come on!

I have been a Dru Down fan for at least ten years but I don't save albums on my computer so I don't have any album cover pics for the page. The page should have a picture of Dru Down/a Dru Down album cover, or NO PIC AT ALL. That was really stupid, whoever put up that LUNIZ pic!

No offense to the Luniz, but this is retarded. It's a Dru Down page, not a Luniz page!

Oh, and Dru Down IS NOT HYPHY! I am deleting the whole pic and the info underneath it because it is all ridiculous and wrong.

Okay I just deleted the picture and the picture info. Please do not upload retarded pictures that have nothing to do with Dru Down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.137.13 (talk • contribs)

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Dru Down is noteworthy as a recording artist, not as pimp. Incidentally, the picture included on the right is inaccurate; it is clearly a Luniz album. While Dru Down recorded some songs with the Luniz and(I think) produced some of their songs on their solo albums, he is not a member of the Luniz and that is not a picture of his first record. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.118.18 (talk • contribs)

Can you show who he is?
I just wish that you all could show the photo of who this Dru Down person actually is since after all we here in the United States are finding that Pimps have a huge marketing campaign going on now that says pimping is something that is legal and that if your a minor child it is big norm of what happens when they are exploited by them and there is no help availble to them yet and still you have Millions of people who have graduated with honors on the entire rehlm of preditory assault issues. Apparently pimps existence is very understated for the horrific crime that it actually is. Freind of a person who didn't survive a known Compeller and Composer A/K/A pimp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.108.253.9 (talk • contribs)

Jail
In custody as of today. check ala cty inmate locator for details. long rap sheet.50.193.19.66 (talk) 16:15, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * arrested dec 17, 2012, charges include felony evasion of police.

ROBINSON, DANYLE NMN 	ATW388 	M 	BLACK 	RAPPER 	09/14/1971 	BROWN 	BLACK 	 5'08"	 162

Arrest Arrest Charge(s) Date	Time	City	Code	Description PC 148(A)(1) M 	OBSTRUCT/ETC PUB OFCR/ETC VC 14601.2(A M 	 VC 23103 M 	RECKLESS DRIVING VC 23152(A M VC 2800.2(A F 	 felony evasion, police

12/17/2012 	12:49 AM 	SAN LEANDRO Event	Police Report Number 2357021 	12-21733 	Booking Date	Time	Booking Type 12/17/2012 	08:26 AM 	ONVIEW Holding Facility	Housing Unit SANTA RITA JAIL AREA 35 Docket	Bail Type	Bail Amount	Next Hearing(s) 446394 	BAIL SET BY COURT  	$175,000.00   	HAYWARD HALL OF JUSTICE

Date	Time	Dept. Proceeding 04/10/2013 	09:00 AM 	502 	FURTHER PRE-TRIAL

Arrest Arrest Charge(s) Date	Time	City	Code	Description VC 14601.2(A M 	 VC 23152(A M VC 23152(B M

08/01/2012 	03:20 AM 	HAYWARD Event	Police Report Number 2337471 	19775PT Booking Date	Time	Booking Type 12/17/2012 	08:31 AM 	ONVIEW Holding Facility	Housing Unit SANTA RITA JAIL AREA 35 Docket	Bail Type	Bail Amount	Next Hearing(s) 444350 	BAIL SET BY COURT  	$5,000.00   	HAYWARD HALL OF JUSTICE

Date	Time	Dept. Proceeding 04/10/2013 	09:00 AM 	502 	FURTHER PRE-TRIAL

Arrest Arrest Charge(s) Date	Time	City	Code	Description HS 11350(A) F 	POSSESS NARCOTIC CNTL SUB HS 11350(B M 	 PC 4573 F 	BRING CNTL SUB/ETC JAIL

03/21/2012 	11:56 PM 	SAN LEANDRO Event	Police Report Number 2318005 	2012-12292 	Booking Date	Time	Booking Type 12/17/2012 	08:32 AM 	ONVIEW Holding Facility	Housing Unit SANTA RITA JAIL AREA 35 Docket	Bail Type	Bail Amount	Next Hearing(s) 441247 	BAIL SET BY COURT  	$5,000.00   	HAYWARD HALL OF JUSTICE

Date	Time	Dept. Proceeding 04/10/2013 	09:00 AM 	502 	FURTHER PRE-TRIAL

Arrest Arrest Charge(s) Date	Time	City	Code	Description VC 14601.1(A M 	 VC 23152(A M VC 23152(B M

04/26/2011 	02:46 AM 	SAN LEANDRO Event	Police Report Number 1320822 	81644HJ Booking Date	Time	Booking Type 12/17/2012 	08:31 AM 	ONVIEW Holding Facility	Housing Unit SANTA RITA JAIL AREA 35 Docket	Bail Type	Bail Amount	Next Hearing(s) 434617 	SENTENCED  	N/A   	HAYWARD HALL OF JUSTICE

Date	Time	Dept. Proceeding 04/10/2013 	09:00 AM 	502 	TO SET HEARING AFTER REV

Aliases: DOWN, DRU JACKSON, DARNYL MONIKER, DRUDOWN

NICKNAME, DRUDOWN

ROBINSON, DANYLE ROBINSON, DANYLE M

ROBINSON, DAYLE

ROBINSON, DAYLE NMN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.193.19.66 (talk) 16:22, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Dru Down was also featured in Lock Up: Oakland Extended Stay S1/Ep01 where his stay at the the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County on these charges was followed.

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