Wepresent techniques for rendering implicit surfaces in different pen-and-ink styles. The implicitmodels are rendered using point-based primitives to depict shape and tone using silhouettes with hidden-line attenuation, drawing directions, and stippling. We present sample renderings obtained for a variety of models. Furthermore, we describe simple and novel methods to control point placement an...

In this paper, we present an algorithm to depict motion in comics-like form, with an artistic drawn-like representation of the scene, from a stereo image sequence. The input to the algorithm is a natural scene, along with a user-defined set of parameters that define the tone and stylistic properties of the image to be produced. The algorithm uses a dense disparity map, computed from the input s...

PURPOSE Three-dimensional (3D) computer-automated threshold Amsler grid testing was used to identify and characterize scotomas typical of glaucoma. METHODS The 3D test exhibits a grid on a computer screen at a preselected grayscale and angular resolution, and allows patients to trace those areas on the grid that are missing in their visual field using a touch screen. Eleven eyes in patients w...

PURPOSE To investigate the use of standard magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sequences with simple parameter modifications for the detection and characterization of total hip arthroplasty (THA) complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS An initial phantom study was performed with cobalt-chrome and titanium prostheses to establish the imaging parameters for a subsequent clinical study. In the clinical...

This paper examines the presentation of male heterosexuality in British soft core pornographic and men’s lifestyle magazines, looking across these formats at the range of conventions and discourses they share. It maps out the key features of male heterosexuality in these publications, focusing on a sample of British magazines collected in June 2003 across both soft core and lifestyle formats, a...

This manuscript optimizes the conjugate heat transfer and thermal-stress analysis for hydromagnetic Brinkman fluid with chemical reaction in permeable media. The governing equations of non-Newtonian have been traced out then fractional derivative approach, namely, Caputo–Fabrizio, is invoked, subject to exponential boundary conditions. Fourier Sine Laplace transforms are applied on partial diff...

This study provides a data-driven analysis that illustrates clear renewable energy depiction in sustainable security and unveils the regional issues due to literature solely occupies concept descriptions view, differences related regions are rarely discussed. A hybrid method is proposed valid those indicators shows trend of future studies. enriches challenges opportunities by contributing under...

This article builds upon Laura Mulvey’s idea of the Male Gaze to conduct a feminist reading video game series Batman: Arkham (2009-2015). It does so by using Bechdel Test analyze depiction major female characters appearing in series. The investigates why portrayal women games is always problematic and how franchise becomes yet another transmedia text that fails showing its accurately. textual a...