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Pinpointing Style

Author
American Mathematical Society
Published
Wed 26 Dec 2007
Episode Link
http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/Rockmore-1-2007-2-18.mp3

A team examining digital photos of drawings used modern mathematical transforms
known as wavelets to quantify attributes of a collection of 16th century master.s drawings. The analysis revealed measurable differences between authentic drawings and imitations, clustering the former away from the latter. This is an impressive feat for the non-experts and their model, yet the team agrees that its work, like mathematics itself, is not designed to replace humans, but to assist them.

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