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Hollywood Comes East to Take Your Portrait

The participants from State include: George Christy, Thomas Godard, Harold Vaughn, Seniors;; Walter Parmer '51. Representing State in the Congressional Discussion will be George Christy, Thomas Goddard a n d Harold Vaughn, Seniors, and Paul LeBrun, Walter Farmer and Edwin Kurlander, Juniors. Miss Elnora M. Drafahl, Instructor in English, will act as one of the judges. Two members of the group, ...

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

Does Sitting on Your Hands Make You Bite Your Tongue? The Effects of Gesture Prohibition on Speech During Motor Descriptions

Several theories of gesture production predict that speech production is affected when gestures are prohibited. The present study sought evidence for these predictions by asking participants to describe how to complete three motor tasks. Half of the participants were prohibited from gesturing during their descriptions. We found that participants who were free to gesture described a higher perce...

Hair Interpolation for Portrait Morphing

In this paper we study the problem of hair interpolation: given two 3D hair models, we want to generate a sequence of intermediate hair models that transform from one input to another both smoothly and aesthetically pleasing. We propose an automatic method that efficiently calculates a many-to-many strand correspondence between two or more given hair models, taking into account the multi-scale ...

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