We present a novel synthesis algorithm for procedurally generating complex curves. Our approach takes a simple example input curve specified by a user and automatically generates complex curves that resemble the input. The algorithm preserves many of the input shape features such as tangent directions, curvature, branch nodes, and closed loops. The overall approach is simple and can be used to ...

*Correspondence: Antonio F. Miguel, Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Évora, Rua Romao Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] The occurrence of configuration (design, shape, structure, rhythm) is a universal phenomenon that occurs in every flow system. Dendritic configuration (or tree-shaped configurations) is ubiquitous in nature and li...

optimistic. He found the theme of that statement — of what “will” happen in the future — to be troubling in that, in the 1920s, a radical change in technology, with similarities to biotechnology, was championed by luminaries such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford: to replace hydrocarbons with carbohydrates. Despite broad support, including deans of MIT and Harvard, for the concept of manufactured...

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divine names and attributes have a great bearing on the relationship between man and god in respects such as belief in and supplication to him. the semantic dimension of this issue has been the focus of attention in the philosophy of religion. this aspect of divine names and attributes is concerned with questions as to how to discuss god’s names and how these names relate to man’s attributes. i...