• Demonstrate the trajectory of light use efficiency (LUE) GPP models. Track evolution parameters (PAR, FPAR, and LUE) in LUE Environmental stress factors experienced an evolutionary trend complexity. Review uncertainties caused by model structure, parameterization, input, validation data. Light models have been widely used to estimate terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) at local, region...

Abstract The objective of this work was to compare the zootechnical performance Dorper x Santa Inês crossbred lambs finished in grazing systems on Megathyrsus maximus Aruana cultivar pasture, with and without shading, a feedlot. Twenty-four non-castrated were used completely randomized experimental design, three following treatments eight replicates each: 'Aruana' pasture shading + supplement; ...

the interior pixel colors from the vertex colors. Phong . Gouraud shading and Phong shading are widely used interpolation methods to render a polygon mesh of a curved surface. When an illumination equation has a specular reflection term, Phong shading produces more realistic results than does Gouraud shading. The specular highlights produced by Phong shading give visual information about surfac...

Rendering systems often represent curved surfaces as a mesh of planar polygons that are shaded to restore a smooth appearance. Gouraud shading uses linear color interpolation and its hardware implementation is relatively easy, but it handles specular highlights incorrectly and introduces annoying artifacts called Mach banding over the edges of the polygon mesh. In software rendering Phong shadi...

Energy consumption is a very important topic these days especially regarding air conditioning in residential buildings, since this takes the biggest amount of energy in buildings total consumption, residential buildings constitute the biggest percentage of energy consumption in Bahrain. This research reflects on the effects of shading percentage in different solar orientations on the energy con...

In this short paper, we present a caching scheme for low-frequent shading information. The scheme consists of a precalculated, carefully constructed sparse set of points, the density of which adapts to local shading requirements, which we estimate by calculating the ambient occlusion. This fixed set of points is then used to store shading information. This shading information is calculated once...

Title of Document: THE EFFECT OF SUNLIGHT ON DECORATION PLACEMENT AND MATING SUCCESS IN MALE SATIN BOWERBIRDS Archer Freni Larned, Master of Science 2012 Directed By: Dr. Gerald Borgia, Professor, Department of Biology Males of some bird species choose sunlit display sites to enhance their visual signal. Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) males place colored decorations on their bower ...

Horseflies (Tabanidae) are polarotactic, being attracted to linearly polarized light when searching for water or host animals. Although it is well known that horseflies prefer sunlit dark and strongly polarizing hosts, the reason for this preference is unknown. According to our hypothesis, horseflies use their polarization sensitivity to look for targets with higher degrees of polarization in t...

Relief shading is the most common type of cartographic relief representation for print and digital maps. Manual relief shading results in informative and visually pleasing representations of terrain, but it is time consuming and expensive to produce. Current analytical relief shading can be created quickly, but the resulting maps are not as aesthetically appealing and do not show landscape feat...

One of the great promises of real-time shading is the potential to have a single shading program that can run across a wide range of graphics hardware. While we don’t yet have a single cross-platform shading language to satisfy everyone, there is ample evidence that it is possible. In this chapter, we discuss what is necessary to create a cross-platform shading language, how shading languages a...