Visualizing higher dimensional polytopes through computer graphics offers a way to understand and to analyze these interesting objects. Such advantages can be improved by considering polytopes’ three-dimensional projections which are embedded in our space. In this work we will describe basic methodologies for polytopes’ visualization and the way such procedures assist the creation of sculptures...

The paper presents the final part of the research project carried out by authors, concerning use of photogrammetric approaches to support the archaeological hypotheses on the origin of various sculptures. Connection of the separate pieces to the complete sculptures would allow to identify more accurately their origin. The first part of this research, presented already by the authors in 2006 dur...

Mathematics, as a subject dealing with abstract concepts, poses a special challenge for educators. In students' experience, the subject is often associated with (potentially) unflattering adjectives—"austere", "remote", "depersonalized", and so forth. This paper describes a computer program named HyperGami whose purpose is to alleviate this harsh portrait of the mathematical enterprise. HyperGa...

Eight of the 10 Rodin hand sculptures on display in a new exhibit have been diagnosed for malformations and diseases by a School of Medicine hand surgeon. One of the sculptures has been “repaired” using virtual surgery by techies in the school’s Division of Clinical Anatomy. And with the help of more digital wizardry, viewers can see virtual blood and bone in the bronze hands. Inside Rodin’s Ha...

We present an original approach of virtual sculpting incarnated in a unified space-time interactive modeler named Splimo (for Spline Modeler), which is specifically designed for the creation of tubular spline works. Oriented towards artistic creation, it allows the realization of virtual transcriptions of real art pieces, as well as the creation of animated virtual sculptures, presented in an e...

In the 1890s, one of Charcot's most important protégés, Dr. Paul Richer (1849-1933), drew and sculpted a series of representations of the main types of nerve pathology. That series included drawings of pleomorphic hysterical crises and sculptures depicting patients suffering from labio-glosso-laryngeal paralysis and myopathy, as well as Parkinson's disease. Richer was a resident at La Salpêtriè...