Faults are the most critical tectonic factors in geological structures, which have major economic impacts on mining economics. Thus it is necessary to understand faults in order to identify the actual risks and complications associated with mining. In the preliminary investigation of the Sonda-Jherruck coalfield, 3D geological modeling was not performed. The purpose of this work was to perform ...

Content-aware resizing methods have recently been developed, among which, seam-carving has achieved the most widespread use. Seam-carving’s versatility enables deliberate object removal and benign image resizing, in which perceptually important content is preserved. Both types of modifications compromise the utility and validity of the modified images as evidence in legal and journalistic appli...

Based on rapid upsurge in the demand and usage of electronic media devices such as tablets, smart phones, laptops, personal computers, etc. and its different display specifications including the size and shapes, image retargeting became one of the key components of communication technology and internet. The existing techniques in image resizing cannot save the most valuable information of image...

A scheme is described for the automatic domain decomposition and creation of overset grids around surface discontinuities. Curves along surface discontinuities are called seam curves. The seam curves are rst automatically extracted from a multiple panel network description of the surface. Points where three or more seam curves meet are automatically identied and are called seam corners. Surface...

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Modeling dressed characters is known as a very tedious process. It usually requires specifying 2D fabric patterns, positioning and assembling them in 3D, and then performing a physically-based simulation. The latter accounts for gravity and collisions to compute the rest shape of the garment, with the adequate folds and wrinkles. This paper presents a more intuitive way to design virtual clothi...

This paper discusses the making of three-dimensional geospatial data infrastructure (3D GDI) for Malaysia. The main component of the initiative is 3D city models with CityGML as the standard for data modelling, transfer and exchange. Various aspects of 3D city modelling especially on the construction of the models and texturing of facades via dynamic pulse function are described. The generated ...

Seam carving is a powerful retargeting algorithm for mapping images to arbitrary sizes with arbitrary aspect ratios. Meanwhile, the seamlet transform has been introduced as an efficient image representation for seam-carving-based retargeting over heterogeneous multimedia devices with a broad range of display sizes. The original seamlet transform was developed using Haar filters, and hence it en...

A single line of epidermal seam cells lies along each side of the nematode C. elegans. During normal development, one of these cells, V5, produces a neuroblast that will give rise to a sensory structure, the postdeirid. If seam cells located either anterior or posterior to V5 are ablated however, this neuroblast formation is blocked. Because of this requirement for the presence of adjacent seam...