Iraq's Constitution: A Drafting History

Drafting.

A Thermodynamic History of the Solar Constitution — I: The Journey to a Gaseous Sun

History has the power to expose the origin and evolution of scientific ideas. How did humanity come to visualize the Sun as a gaseous plasma? Why is its interior thought to contain blackbody radiation? Who were the first people to postulate that the density of the solar body varied greatly with depth? When did mankind first conceive that the solar surface was merely an illusion? What were the f...

Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design Programs for Presenting Architectural History and Archaeology

The computer revolution has been going on long enough now that no one attending these meetings would be surprised to hear a discussion of any one of several forms of computer-generated "reality." A few years ago the phrase was walk-through or fly-by for a computer-simulated journey through space. Today the phrase is virtual reality a term which conjures up thoughts of versions of reality whethe...

Drafting with Sequences

The numbers on the inner circle are those that exist in the modular arithmetic. If we continue beyond 7, as shown in the outer ring, the numbers wrap around the wheel. Numbers on the same spoke are equivalent. For example, 0 and 8 are equivalent, 1 and 9 are equivalent, 2 and 10 are equivalent, and so on. Another way to look at it is that when 9 is introduced into modular arithmetic with 8 shaf...

A System for Automatic Drafting Encoding

A comple te s o f t w a r e system f o r automat ic d r a f t i n g encoding i s desc r i bed . T h i s system decomposes t h e o r i g i n a l d r a f t i n t o a g raph i c p r i m i t i ve -based d e s c r i p t i o n , s u i t a b l e f o r subsequent CAD process ing. Problems r e l a t i v e t o t h e b ina r i z a t i o n phase and t h e symbol r e c o g n i t i o n s t e p a r e a l s o ...