So, it's a difficult line-drawing function, but we draw lines all the time.
The two-dimensional kernel density estimation function kde and the ellipse-drawing function ellipse for S-PLUS or R are available from StatLib [ 24].
By E. F. Richner and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, September 22, 1962 P. 33 Incidental Intelligence: A paper read at a recent meeting of the American Psychological Association in St . Louiswas entitled "Size of Witch Drawings as a Function of Time Before, On, and After Halloween".
They range from rough sketches or notes to test pieces made from various materials that function as drawings, to finished pieces that stand on their own.
The idea of logicographic symbols is to attach graphical drawings to predicate or function constants.
Kelly explains how the Polaroids work in relation to Mapplethorpe's oeuvre: "The obvious way that they function is like drawings, they work for him like drawings in the sense that an artist will make a drawing before they make a painting or sculpture to figure out ideas and to flesh out how they're going to work formally and aesthetically with the idea that they have".
As to how drawings as a genre functioned, a book titled "Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-19th-Century Shakerism" by the art historian Sally M. Promey (Indiana University Press, 1993) offers some answers.
One installation, the 1985-86 "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile," designed as performance environment, is a classic Kelley blend of scatology and eschatology, with paintings and drawings referring to bodily functions, Afro wigs, Nazis, gender confusion and Jesus.
"Scholars still puzzle over the function of these drawings, which appear to have had a comic intent," Orenstein deadpans in her commentary on an etching of a pair of grotesque heads copied from Leonardo.
But it is not the installation designer's fault that nearly all the 130 prints, drawings and collages on view function largely as markers of your progress from one pocket of music and moving pictures to another.
