Computer programming is a highly creative and explorative process. In spite of this, current programming tools provide significantly better support for well defined situations than for exploration. This makes programming unnecessarily difficult. This MSc thesis investigates how design professions use hands-on learning, materials and visual cognition to support creative problem solving. A cognit...

Quantum mechanics states that hopping integral between local orbitals makes the energy band dispersive. However, in some special cases, there are bands with no dispersion due to quantum interference. These bands are called as flat band. Many models having flat band have been proposed, and many interesting physical properties are predicted. However, no real compound having flat band has been fou...

Given the optimality of revealing good news whenever it is received, we can without loss focus on the agents’ check in times and their experimentation decisions as the two control variables. The optimal policy is therefore described by a process (Xt, αt)t where Xt ≤ t is the right-continuous measure of all agents that have checked in by time t, and αt ∈ [0, 1] is the probability of consumption ...

Product lighting design is a laborious and time-consuming task. With product illustrations being increasingly rendered, the challenge transferred to virtual realm. Our approach targets in context of scene with fixed objects, materials, camera parameters, illuminated by environmental lighting. solution offers control over depiction material characteristics shape details optimizing illuminating e...