This document describes four projects that, taken together, serve as a proof by example of the efficacy of a perception-motivated strategy for making graphics tools. More specifically, this strategy involves first selecting local features motivated by human perception and domain understanding, and then building algorithms that allow users to interactively edit these features. While the tools pr...

purpose student circus artists train as both artists and athletes with their bodies holding the key to professional success. the daily training load of student circus artists is often associated with maximum physical and psychological stress with injuries posing a threat to a potential professional career. the purpose of this study is the differentiated analysis and evaluation of work accidents...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania martiniquensis infection has been reported in human and domestic animals of Martinique Island, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Myanmar and Thailand. The peculiar clinical features of disseminated cutaneous and visceral forms co-existence render the urgent need of specific diagnostic tool to identify the natural sand fly vectors for effective prevention a...

We present a new method for real-time physics-based simulation supporting many different types of hyperelastic materials. Previous methods such as Position Based or Projective Dynamics are fast, but support only limited selection of materials; even classical materials such as the Neo-Hookean elasticity are not supported. Recently, Xu et al. [2015] introduced new “spline-based materials” which c...

the current state of conceptual clothing in iran from the perspective of the participating artists (1380s) marzieh zare, department of art, university of uroumiyeh, uroumiyeh, [email protected] zare, associate professor, department of sociology, kharazmi university, tehran, [email protected] ancient time clothes has been integrated into human life, though this i...