At the high resolutions attainable with the new generation space-borne sensors, the focus moves increasingly from spectral characteristics to geometric features. This trend is even more evident for urban areas which tend to show an unpaired concentration of linear features with respect to any other land cover. This naturally applies to both optical and radar images, and suggests one may use loc...

Improving terrain tile data selection efficiency, real-time loading of visible tile data and building GPU-based continuous Level of Details (LOD) are the key technologies for large scale terrain rendering on GPU. In this article, in order to reduce terrain tile data selection time, we build double layers tile quad tree for massive terrain data and organize tile data by designing Z-order space f...

The delamination buckling approach provides a facile means to dynamically control the optical transmittance of extremely flexible and stretchable graphene oxide coatings with fast response time. Such graphene oxide coatings can be deposited by scalable solution-processing methods for potential applications in dynamic glazing.

We discuss theoretical aspects of the self-assembly of triangular tiles, in particular, right triangular tiles and equilateral triangular tiles, and the self-assembly of hexagonal tiles. We show that triangular tile assembly systems and square tile assembly systems cannot be simulated by each other in a non-trivial way. More precisely, there exists a deterministic square (hexagonal) tile assemb...

Tile logic extends rewriting logic by taking into account side-eeects and rewriting synchronization. These aspects are very important when we model process calculi, because they allow us to express the dynamic interaction between processes and \the rest of the world". Since rewriting logic is the semantic basis of several language implementation eeorts, we can deene an executable speciication o...

In the classical model of tile self-assembly, unit square tiles translate in the plane and attach edgewise to form large crystalline structures. This model of self-assembly has been shown to be capable of asymptotically optimal assembly of arbitrary shapes and, via information-theoretic arguments, increasingly complex shapes necessarily require increasing numbers of distinct types of tiles. We ...

macroeconomic stabilitv is a major prerequisite fo r real economic growth. in th is study in order to allalyse tile empirical relation ship between macroeconomic instability and per capita real growth, a regression model has been specifi ed for tile iranian economy . in this equation , lour variables including hudget deficit as a ratio to gdp. intlation rate , percenltlge change in tile rea! ex...

In this survey paper, I describe three applications of tilings to music theory: the representation of tuning systems and chord relationships by lattices, modeling voice leading by tilings of n-dimensional space, and the classification of rhythmic tiling canons, which are essentially one-dimensional tilings.

Let T be a tile made up of finitely many rectangles whose corners have rational coordinates and whose sides are parallel to the coordinate axes. This paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a square to be tilable by finitely many Qweighted tiles with the same shape as T , and necessary and sufficient conditions for a square to be tilable by finitely many Z-weighted tiles with the sa...

Wang tiles are square tiles with colored edges. We construct an aperiodic set of Wang tiles that is strongly deterministic in the sense that any two adjacent edges of a tile determine the tile uniquely. Consequently, the tiling group of this set is not hyperbolic and it acts discretely and co-compactly on a CAT(0) space.