Vampires arouse strong popular interest and attract large print and film audiences. Their influence is also notable in clinical vampirism, a rare condition described in the forensic literature covering some of humanity's most shocking behaviors. Definitions of vampirism involve aspects of necrophilia, sadism, cannibalism, and a fascination with blood. Its relationships with established diagnost...

Blending is both the strength and the weakness of functionally based implicit surfaces (such as F-reps or softobjects). While it gives them the unique ability to smoothly merge into a single, arbitrary shape, it makes implicit modelling hard to control since implicit surfaces blend at a distance, in a way that heavily depends on the slope of the field functions that define them. This paper pres...

Shape blending has several applications in computer graphics. In this paper, we present a new method for smoothly blending among multiple polygonal shapes. The blended shape is computed as a weighted average of the input shapes. The weight of each input shape is allowed to vary across the shape. This feature increases the flexibility for controlling the local appearance of the blended shapes. O...

1. Introduction The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. Within this field, the notions of 'source domains' and 'target domains', 'invariance', 'mappings', and so forth have become a common, though not universal, vocabulary for disc...

We introduce a novel method for constructing polyhedra by blending together two or more existing polyhedra, using a dualization method. The method results in a Minkowski sum, analogous to that of overlay tilings [5], which uses a topological dual operation to create tilings from a network (a graph embedded in a plane). This paper extends that method to networks on the surface of the unit sphere...

Examples like these illustrate the fact that “the general principle of competition between planning structures is obviously capable of being thrust into a causal role at many points,” in the explanation for speech error phenomena. Crucially, “the problem,” as Garrett says, “is to find a suitably constrained range of such claims” (p. 206). The aim of my paper is to do exactly that, using a large...