Dataset Running time (mins : secs) No. of input images Accuracy Temple ring 33 : 17 47 98.9% Temple sparse ring 29 : 06 16 96.8% Dino ring 36 : 45 48 97.7% Dino sparse ring 32 : 01 16 97.6% Figure 8 3D rendering of our reconstruction results running on the four Benchmark datasets of [25].
But Thai tourism is an industry built on image — beaches, temples, elephants, smiles — and anything that threatens that image is a serious offense.
There are large numbers of images of temple dancing girls and a few textual references to devadasis from the early centuries A.D. onward, including some in the area immediately around Saundatti.
According to a surviving image of the temple dating from a local history of Quyang written in 1672, the temple had by this time achieved its present layout.
Some priests are attempting to reverse the decline and challenge the "funeral Buddhism" image by opening temple cafes, supporting volunteer activities and hosting music and theatre productions.
Ms. Gibney, a quietly perceptive and evocative modern-dance choreographer, created her new "Time Remaining" by an image of ancient temple ruins overtaken by entangled vines.
The image and the temple are, in traditional societies, not simply productions by individual artists and architects; they are reflections of the sacred essence of life, and their measurements and forms are specified through sacred communication from the divine sphere.
A consecrated image in a temple, or on a home altar, doesn't just depict a god; when you engage with it, it is the god, listening to you, looking at you, ready to serve and ready to be served.
The divine personality installed as a home or temple image receives prasada, tasting it (Hindus differ as to whether this is a real or symbolic act, gross or subtle) and offering the remains to worshipers.
In "Architectura Numismatica", a paper she wrote in 1945 and published by the American Numismatic Society, she showed how coins bearing an image of the temple of Artemis could provide a reliable account of what it really looked like.
