We present a cartoon animation style rendering method for water animation. In an effort to capture and represent crucial features of water observed in traditional cartoon animation, we propose a Cartoon Water Shader. The proposed rendering method is a modified Phong illumination model augmented by the optical properties that ray tracing provides. We also devise a metric that automatically chang...

BACKGROUND Integrated control programs, emphasizing preventive chemotherapy along with health education, can reduce the incidence of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis. The aim of this study was to develop an educational animated cartoon to improve school children's awareness regarding soil-transmitted helminthiasis, diarrheal diseases, and related hygiene practices in Côte d'Iv...

In this paper we present an approach for synthesising and editing cartoon fire series based on hand-drawn samples. Our approach first extracts outlines of hand-drawn cartoon fire series and, based on the central reference skeleton, synthesises fire of arbitrary length by high level control on flame skeletons. With our approach users may edit cartoon fire series to achieve effects such as fire s...

women as half of human societies have different roles in different areas of social life. so content analysis of the media is necessary in the about of women. this study uses two methods: content analysis and semiotics. so content analyzed a statistical week from the first six months of 1393 kayhan, iran and shargh newspapers. then by using semiotics, printed images of women in these newspapers ...

Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a controversial condition in which people describe symptoms following exposure to electromagnetic fields from everyday electrical devices. However, double-blind experiments have found no convincing evidence that electromagnetic fields cause these symptoms. In this study, we assessed whether recent newspaper r...

The objective of Cartoon Style Rendering is to produce a cartoon looking rendering out of a 3D scene. Instead of rendering photorealistic images the focus lies on artistic and stylistic characteristics. In this paper we give an overview of the common methods to generate cartoon looking scenes. We describe the basic techniques for the silhouette edge detection and the shading of the interior. Th...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this research was to study whether a fast-paced television show immediately influences preschool-aged children's executive function (eg, self-regulation, working memory). METHODS Sixty 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to watch a fast-paced television cartoon or an educational cartoon or draw for 9 minutes. They were then given 4 tasks tapping executive function, includ...

We propose a novel image decomposition method to decompose an image into its cartoon and texture components. To exploit the nonlocal selfsimilarity of cartoon-plus-texture images, we construct groups by stacking together similar image patches into 3-D arrays and consider group as the basic unit of decomposition. We decompose each group via a convex optimization model consisting of 3-D cartoon a...

We propose a novel method for curve structure extraction of cartoon images. Our method handles two types of cartoon curves, decorative curves and boundary curves, in a uniform way. The method consists of two steps. First, we calculate curve points by applying non-maximal suppress on secondary derivative of cartoon images. Second, these curve points are linked together to form structure curves w...

We propose a novel sparsity-based method for cartoon and texture decomposition based on Convolutional Sparse Coding (CSC). Our method first learns a set of generic filters that can sparsely represent cartoon and texture type images. Then using these learned filters, we propose a sparsity-based optimization framework to decompose a given image into cartoon and texture components. By working dire...