Due to Increasing demands of cartoon style In many areas of computer graphic aspects, this paper presents a simple stylized shading technique to enhance the cartoonlsh appearance In two aspects. First, a new toon-illumlnation model Is developed to emphasize the boundaries between diffuse reflection part and specular reflection part in the phong illumination model. The new discrete shading will ...

This manuscript reviews the literature concerning the effects of animated violence on aggressive behavior in youth. It begins with an overview of the research on children's and adolescents' perceptions of violence in cartoons. Next, the effects of cartoon violence on aggressive behavior across development are reviewed. In each section, the importance of the presence (or absence) of comedic elem...

This paper provides an overview of the ePaper project. The project aims to provide an end-to-end solution for the future mobile personalized newspaper. The ePaper aggregates content (i.e., news items) from various news providers, and delivers personalized newspapers on dedicated mobile, electronic newspaper-like, devices. The ePaper can provide to each subscribed user a personalized newspaper, ...

This paper presents future scenarios of use and design of the e-newspaper, i.e. the newspaper on epaper. These scenarios are based on experiences from prototyping e-newspaper interfaces and from a survey with newspaper designers and management. The findings show e.g. that the design from the printed edition and the functionality of the online newspaper were considered preferable attributes for ...

CONTEXT Scientific journals issue press releases to disseminate scientific news about articles they publish. OBJECTIVE To assess whether press releases about journal articles were associated with publication of subsequent newspaper stories. DESIGN Retrospective content analysis of newspaper stories, journal press releases, and journal tables of contents. From December 1, 1996, to February 2...

The cartoon figure on the cover image is Monkey King, who a character in classical Chinese novel “Journey to West”. He has 72 polymorphic transformations. As shown cartoon, he only needs blow breath and can create lot of little monkeys. p-Terphenylene-bridged NiII porphyrin dimer, which similar gave syn- anti-doubly heptagon-fused dimers, spiro-pentagon-bridged chlorin doubly octagon-fused dime...