This talk presents strategies for including graphics into LATEX documents. It shows the usage of the standard graphics packages of LATEX as well as an introduction to different graphics formats. Some external tools for converting graphics formats are discussed. Overview of graphics formats In general, there exist two kinds of graphics formats: vector and bitmap graphics. For bitmaps, there exis...

Due to their simplicity, triangle meshes are used to represent geometric objects in many applications. Since the number of triangles often goes beyond the capabilities of computer graphics hardware and the transmission time of such data is often inappropriately high, a large variety of mesh simplification algorithms has been proposed in the last years. In this paper we identify major requiremen...

Copyright: © 2013 Paliy O. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The observations of different organisms’ interactions with their environment and with each other can probably be extended back to preh...

In this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus' Croesus and Sophocles' Oedipus against four central themes: ignorance learning too late; misplaced hope; mutability fortune; fate responsibility. Our analysis reveals striking affinities between two author's works, not only in their conception human fortune working divine causation, but also how Herodotus Sophocles engage audiences by employi...

bactrian was the language of bactria in northern afganistan. this language is considered as one of the eastern middle iranian languages which was used from the first to the ninth century. the remaining materials from this language include coins, seals, inscriptions and documents. in 1990s, many bactrian documents were found amongst which the letters were of most importance as they gave much mor...