RE EQUATIONS BEAUTIFUL? TO SCIENTISTS, FORMULAS’ ABILITY TO represent fundamental truths or concisely capture complexity is indeed exquisite. To many in the public, though, they can be the opposite of beautiful—intimidating, utilitarian and opaque. Yet for others, the very mystery can be alluring: even when we cannot understand what equations say, we can be moved by knowing they have meanings b...

We present a new technique for visually comparing placement results through component coloring using partitioning and the Fiedler eigenvector. By coloring a placement result, we can quickly get insights on how to improve a placement tool and understand what matters and what does not to the placement quality. As a side effect, our coloring scheme may generate beautiful images, making this paper ...

Obscurances is a powerful technique that approximates indirect global illumination in a much faster way than classic methods as radiosity or path tracing. In this method, the local environment of a point or a patch is sampled to estimate the amount of occlusion that surrounds it. Fine effects as color reflection can be added and visually pleasant rendering of corners and soft shadows are easily...

Abstract Knowledge about writers’ eye movements and their effects on the writing process, its product—the finally edited text—is still limited. Previous research has demonstrated that there are differences between reading texts written by someone else one’s own emerging text writers frequently look back into (Torrance et al. in Psychol Res Psychologische Forschung 80(5):729–743, 2016. https://d...

In this paper we present the work in progress on LogCHEM, an ILP based tool for discriminative interactive mining of chemical fragments. In particular, we describe the integration with a molecule visualisation software that allows the chemist to graphically control the search for interesting patterns in chemical fragments. Furthermore, we show how structured information, such as rings, function...

Neurons in the primary visual cortex spontaneously spike even when there are no visual stimuli. It is unknown whether the spiking evoked by visual stimuli is just a modification of the spontaneous ongoing cortical spiking dynamics or whether the spontaneous spiking state disappears and is replaced by evoked spiking. This study of laminar recordings of spontaneous spiking and visually evoked spi...