Speaking ability is a linguistic aptitude or mode of communication in which person can communicate his her thoughts information logical order while mastering the mechanics speaking convention (pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency and understanding). The researcher used Picture Series Technique to overcome challenges that students were having this study. This research was conducted improv...

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This paper describes an attempt to enable computers to generate truly novel conceptual designs of solid objects by using genetic algorithms (GAs). The current capabilities of the system are illustrated by the example of designing a table. Each individual table has its functionality specified by an explicit objective function, which is utilised by GAs to evolve candidate designs. These designs a...

Illustration-inspired techniques have provided alternative ways to visualize time-varying data. Techniques such as speedlines, flow ribbons, strobe silhouettes and opacity-based techniques provide temporal context to the current timestep being visualized. We evaluated the effectiveness of these illustrative techniques by conducting a user study. We compared the ability of subjects to visually t...

A covariant causal set (c-causet) is a causal set that is invariant under labeling. Such causets are well-behaved and have a rigid geometry that is determined by a sequence of positive integers called the shell sequence. We first consider the microscopic picture. In this picture, the vertices of a c-causet have integer labels that are unique up to a label isomorphism. This labeling enables us t...

Most illustration systems need a lot of user strokes to generate natural-looking pen-and-ink illustrations. In order. to reduce the number of user strokes necessary, we propose a new method for pen-and-ink illustrations using a stroke morphing concept. For this, we introduce a general stroke morphing procedure, which consists of both jlow-oriented morphing and shape-oriented morphing. Using thi...

A static 2D image can be turned into an interactive medium by providing descriptive information that is shown on demand. For this purpose, two challenges need to be solved. First, appropriate techniques for the storage of descriptive information and it’s linkage to the image content are needed. We address this challenge by applying techniques from information hiding, a procedure we call Illustr...

Abstract. The ∆2-distribution is a multivariate distribution, which plays an important role in variance reduction of Monte Carlo integral evaluation. Selecting the nodes of random cubature formulae according to ∆2 ensures an unbiased and efficient estimate of the studied integral regardless of the region it is solved over. The ∆2 distribution is also relevant in problems such as separating erro...