Interactive Illustrations for Visualizing Complex 3D Objects Wilmot W. Li Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor David Salesin Computer Science & Engineering Illustrations are essential for conveying the internal structure of complex 3D objects. This dissertation describes techniques for creating and viewing interactive digital illustrations that use dynamic cutaway and exploded views to...

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There is an abundance of useful fluctuation identities for one-sided Lévy processes observed up to independent exponentially distributed time horizon. We show that all the fundamental formulas generalize horizons having matrix exponential distributions, and structure preserved. Essentially, positive killing rate replaced by a with eigenvalues in right half complex plane which, particular, appli...