This creative project explored the visual characteristics of the transitions found in the decay of the pear. The project consisted of oil paintings, watercolors and prints. I found that what is normally viewed as ugly can be visually stimulating or actually beautiful. These images were produced to communicate the visual changes which occure with the characteristics of the fruit through the passage of time. / Department of Art

The purpose of this Creative Project was to create and analyze the student's art work,which was finished within the academic year 1985-86, at Ball State University. Due to the difference in geographical features between Indiana and Hong Kong (where the student originally came from), the attitude and approach of the student towards painting was affected. This paper traced and identified how and where his works of art changed.The whole analysis was based on three major pieces. They were Frankton I, A Cold Summer, Frankton II and LandscaDe VI (which was a landscape of Muncie). These three works were oil paintings. The student also used some of the preparatory watercolor sketches that he made to help describe the different developing stages of his art. During the analysis, technical aspects of handling oil paint were discussed too.

This creative project was an in-depth study for the artist. It was a realization of a sculptural idea in the artist’s mind. The study was a personal one in the sense that no reference or outside source of any conscious nature was used. The sculptures that resulted from this study were a unique an creative endeavor on the part of the artist. This project was designed by the artist to solve the problem of effectively putting together two types of properties that clay holds, soft, plastic and organic when wet in contrast to hard, stony, and geometric when fired.

This creative project has traced the development of shaped canvases from two-dimensional shapes to a more three-dimensional shaped form. This project has compared work completed in the past by Newman, Noland, and Stella and work presently being done by Bonticou, Baer, and Hinman with the work defined in the project.In addition, work defined in the project has been carefully described as to the selection of materials, the preparing of individual sections, the preparation of the canvas surface, and the proper way of displaying the art form.Finally, the project discussed the unique utilization of corner space for display purposes and the various techniques and methods of lighting used to alter the appearance and effect of the projected forms.

The purpose of this creative project was to explore various ways of using acrylic paint other than the traditional methods of direct application to canvas or paper and produce a suite of fifteen mixed media drawings using methods developed during the creative project. With the drawings produced during the creative project the writer discovered a new approach in using acrylic polymers. Subtle relationships of color, texture, value, and spacial illusion were achieved through the use of this method. The technique involved making a thin sheet of nonsoluable, flexible acrylic, cutting it, manipulating it, and applying it to a sheet of paper. Through the creative project the writer explored riew concepts in composition and personal imagery. Work completed during the project yielded over one hundred drawings. Works from the project have been exhibited regionally and nationally. Two pieces were included in Indiana Artists Exhibition in 1983 and two others were purchased by the Evansville Museum for their permanent collection.

The creative project dealt with an intensive study of a wide variety of color drawing media and surface grounds (papers). The artist carried out a number of sketches to determine the properties of the individual drawing materials, then executed a series of eight finished drawings. The results were analyzed and presented in written documentation. In addition, the artist also researched historical and stylistic relationships between his own and existing works.The main accomplishments of this project were the development and growth of subject matter and the experimentation with materials and technique which occured in the artist's work. Through work in the various media, the artist attained a deeper understanding of the technical application of the materials and further developed and refined his range of images and subject matter.

This thesis describes investigations into cryofixation by the plunge-cooling technique, at ambient pressure. The objective was to characterise coolants which are commonly used for cryofixation, so that the structure and chemistry of biological specimens may be preserved in a more life-like state. The work began with the design of a suitable cooling device. This was developed further into a large test-bed apparatus which was used in both biological and methodological experiments. The large cooling apparatus demonstrated for the first time that ethane was a superior coolant under forced convection, compared to propane or Freon 22, for bare thermocouples, for exposed hydrated specimens and for metal-sandwiched hydrated specimens. Ice crystal formation was monitored in sandwiched specimens and found to correspond closely to modelling predictions. A biological application was the X-ray microanalysis of body fluids in "indicator" species of Chaetognaths, where results obtained from cryoscanning electron microscopy revealed ecophysiological differences. The use of low thermal mass supports demonstrated that good freezing can occur in the centre of specimens. A new cryomounting method was developed to load well-frozen specimens into the microscope. The effect of post-freeze processing temperature was investigated by monitoring ice crystals in red blood cells. Exposure to 213 K (-60°C) over a 48 hour period did not induce crystal growth and exposure to 233 K (-40°C) for 8 days showed minimal ice crystal damage. The progress of cryosubstitution was monitored over 48 h at 193 K ( -80°C), this showed that uranium ingressed to a depth of 320 µm which could be doubled when shrinkage was allowed for. The conclusion was that observed ice crystal damage originated during the initial freezing and not during subsequent cryoprocessing.

In Dissolved Air Flotation the performance of the saturator and subsequent release of the air from the solution is important. In particular the bubble size, the degree of saturation and the hydrodynamic bubble movement are important physical parameters. In this study all these have been investigated. The factors affecting the bubble size when gas is released from a supersaturated solution and the performance of two types of absorbers a conventional packed column and a Higee Absorber were examined. The size of the bubbles generated from a nozzle have been measured in tap water at different operation conditions of liquid flowrate, gas flowrate and pressure. The bubble size was measured using a photographic technique and found to decrease with increasing the gas pressure in the conventional saturator, but it was not possible to observe the small bubbles generated using the Higee Technique. For the conventional device, the liquid flowrate had a significant role whereby the bubble diameter fell with flowrate. Bubble uniformity increased as both pressure and liquid throughput increased. The saturation performance of the two kinds of absorbers were examined. In all the cases, the Higee technique operate better as far the saturation level was concerned. The degree of saturation in the Higee systems was found to be a strong function of both gas and liquid flowrates as well as the rotational speed (which governs the gas pressure). Finally, as it may be possible to distribute the saturated solutions and (any bubbles formed) more uniformly throughout flotation tanks if Higee saturators are used, a computer package was adopted to provide enough data for the simulation of the flow patterns in flotation tanks.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 384-391). / Microfiche. / 2 v. (xii, 391 leaves, bound) ill. 29 cm

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-74). Also issued in print.