A solid-state high performance flexible asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) was fabricated. Its anode is based on organic-inorganic materials, where polypyrrole (PPy) is uniformly wrapped on MnO2 nanoflowers grown on carbon cloth (CC), and its cathode is made of activated carbon (AC) on CC. The ASC has an areal capacitance of 1.41 F cm(-2) and an energy density of 0.63 mW h cm(-2) at a power densit...

This research aims is the agroindustrial wastewater treatment by an electrochemical device called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC), which produces electricity while to metabolize the wastewater. The behavior of biofilme formed at reticulated carbon vitreous/Shewanella putrefaciens/vinasse solution interface as anode, was studied by electrochemical measurements. The polarization curves against the carb...

In this paper, we present an experimental work using a MOCAP system and an iterative minimization technique to compute damping parameters and to measure their contribution for the simulation of cloth in free fall movement. Energy damping is an important phenomenon to consider for the 3D simulation of warp and weft materials, since it has a great influence on the animation realism. This phenomen...

In this paper we present a computer vision algorithm for estimating cloth parameters for mod-eling. In an analysis-by-synthesis manner, the algorithm compares the drape of the model with the range data and searches for the best t. It can be applied to any physics-based cloth model. The motivating application is fashion design using CAD systems, but the ability of the algorithm to estimate the s...

In this paper we present an algorithm for analysis of the range data of cloth drapes. The goal of the analysis is estimation of parameters for modeling and the geometry of the underlying object. In an analysis-by-synthesis manner, the algorithm compares the drape of the model with the range data and searches for the best t. It can be applied to any physics-based cloth model. The motivating appl...

In this paper, a method of generating the three-dimensional knitting clothes shapes is described. First, a method of representation of the cloth is described. In this method, a cloth is represented by a mesh, which is a set of vertexes. Next, a method of generating the cloth shapes is described. The cloth covers three-dimensional objects. To generate the shapes, vertexes of the mesh are moved w...

A patient developed severe hemolytic anemia one year after insertion of a cloth-covered aortic valve prosthesis (Starr-Edwards No. 2320). The cloth over the three struts was disrupted but showed coverage with mostly organized collagen. Hemolysis stopped after replacement with a porcine heterograft. Fabric wear seems to augment the hemolysis in patients with cloth-covered artificial valves.

Cloth animation is a very expensive process in terms of computational cost, due to the flexible nature of cloth objects. Since wrinkles and smooth areas co-exist commonly in cloth, it is tempting to reduce computational cost by avoiding redundant tessellation at the smooth areas. In this paper we present a method for dynamic adaptation of triangular meshes suitable for cloth simulation. A botto...

Overview We present a method for capturing the geometry and parameterization of fast-moving cloth using multiple video cameras, without requiring camera calibration. Our cloth is printed with a multi-scale pattern that allows capture at both high speed and high spatial resolution even though self-occlusion might block any individual camera from seeing the majority of the cloth. We show how to i...

We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard Abstract Recent years have seen an increased interest in cloth simulation. There has been little analysis, however, of the parameters controlling simulation behaviour. In this thesis, we present two primary contributions. First, we discuss a series of experiments investigating the influence of the parameters of a popular cloth simulat...