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A high-resolution global basemap of (101955) Bennu
© 2020 The Authors In early 2019, NASA\u27s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) mission surveyed asteroid (101955) Bennu with a collection of instruments, including the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) PolyCam imager. Using PolyCam panchromatic images, we constructed a globally controlled basemap of Bennu at an approximate ground sample distance of 5 cm with a mean spatial accuracy of ~30 cm. The basemap was photometrically normalized using a Minneart phase angle correction. New mapping methods were developed to combine images of Bennu\u27s irregular shape and extremely rough surface into a nearly seamless mosaic. Here we present the global basemap of Bennu and discuss the image processing techniques used to construct a high-resolution mosaic of an irregular small body
Aesthetics of Conflict: Perspective and Anamorphosis in Siqueiros’s Art of the 1930s
© 2021 College Art Association. Inspired by dialogue with Sergei Eisenstein, David Alfaro Siqueiros applied the principles of material dialectics to art’s production, aesthetics, and reception. Central to his experiments was the use of linear perspective and its ancillary, anamorphosis. Siqueiros, like Erwin Panofsky, understood perspective to have both psychological and symbolic potentials and developed an aesthetics of conflict, designed both to psychologically engage the viewer with a montage of conflicting perspectives and to embody the conflicts of the 1930s (epitomized in the Portrait of the Bourgeoisie mural). At issue is the question, under what conditions can artworks affect their spectators?