The atomic dynamics of decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystals is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The model structures used consist of an alternating stacking of two layers, which are decorations of a hexagon-boat-star tiling. Apart from small relaxations, these model structures are essentially stable up to the melting point. Above two thirds of the melting temperature, a large fractio...

Illuminated manuscripts of medieval music contain rich decorations in addition to handwritten neumatic notation. Our project with composer Philippe Leroux investigates the use of such handwritten symbols during the composition of his piece Quid sit musicus. We introduce pOM, an interactive paper application and a library for the OpenMusic computer-aided composition environment which links pen g...

The multiple-spiral medallions are beautiful decorations situated in the proximity of the small copies of the Mandelbrot set. They are composed by an infinity of babies Mandelbrot sets that have external arguments with known structure. In this paper we study the coupling patterns of the external arguments of the baby Mandelbrot sets in multiple-spiral medallions, that is, how these external arg...

In this paper we offer an intelligent integrated environment for human-robot interaction. This environment takes advantage of the fact that robots are both digital and physical entities, thus improving human-robot interaction and communication. Using mixed reality, our approach brings digital information directly into the physical environment, allowing users to interact with robots’ ideas and t...

A decoration of the Mandelbrot set M is a part of M cut off by two external rays landing at some tip of a satellite copy of M attached to the main cardioid. In this paper we consider infinitely renormalizable quadratic polynomi-als satisfying the decoration condition, which means that the combinatorics of the renormalization operators involved is selected from a finite family of decorations. Fo...

density functional theory ,(dft) calculations have been performed to investigate the properties ofcarbon decorated (c-decorated) models of boron nitride (bn) nanocones. to this aim, the apex andtip of nanocone have been substituted by the carbon atoms to represent the c-decorated models. theresults indicated that dipole moments and energy gaps could reveal the effects of c-decorations onthe pro...