The world is too complex to manage without radical functional simplification. Meaning appears to exist as the basis for such simplification. The meaning that guides functional simplification may be usefully considered as consisting of three classes. The first class consists of meanings of the determinate world. These are meanings based in motivation, emotion, and personal and social identity. F...

We present in this paper a new particle-based method for sampling and rendering several types of the nonphotorealistic feature contours on implicit surfaces: silhouette, shadow and suggestive contours. We introduce a curve adhesion behavior for dynamic particles that brings up the possibility to render any contour that is defined as an intersection of two smooth implicit surfaces. In the case o...

The nonphotorealistic rendering is recognized as one of the major topics in the recent computer graphics society. The general issue in this research area is achieving methods for imitating the artists’ rendering styles, such as oil-paintings, technical illustration, etc. The painterly rendering is one of the nonphotorealstic rendering methods dealing with the effects as the oil-paintings. It is...

This paper describes how technical illustrations containing opaque and non-opaque objects can be automatically generated. Traditional methods to show transparency in manual drawings are evaluated to extract a small and effective set of rules for computer-based rendering of technical illustrations, leading to a novel view-dependent transparency model. We propose a hardware-accelerated depth sort...

The paper explores the dimensions of focalization from point view cognitive poetics leaning on idea that directly affects reading experience and, therefore, reception narrative discourse. importance deixis, their referential value in storytelling process and reception, is illustrated example short story “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You” by Alice Munro. Focalization treated as a rhetoric...

Processing of speech and nonspeech sounds occurs bilaterally within primary auditory cortex and surrounding regions of the superior temporal gyrus; however, the manner in which these regions interact during speech and nonspeech processing is not well understood. Here, we investigate the underlying neuronal architecture of the auditory system with magnetoencephalography and a mismatch paradigm. ...

This paper explores a case example of qualitative research that applied productive hermeneutics and the central concept, fusion horizons. Interpretation meaning is fusing researchers’ subjects’ perspectives serves to expand understanding. The purpose illustrate an exemplar without establishing rigid recipe methodology. illustration based on in-depth observational textual data from anthropologic...