Cloth simulation is a highly intensive processor task. Higher details are often traded or sacrificed for speed in order to maintain the simulation at reasonable rates. This article proposes a technique to dynamically adjust the level of detail of cloth meshes. Mesh quality, during successive subdivision/simplification operations, is guaranteed by the subdivision scheme adopted. Also, topology o...

The paper presents first results of an ongoing project on text simplification focusing on linguistic metaphors. Based on an analysis of a parallel corpus of news text professionally simplified for different grade levels, we identify six types of simplification choices falling into two broad categories: preserving metaphors or dropping them. An annotation study on almost 300 source sentences wit...