A Real World Illustration Of SFAS 158

A Real-Time Video Illustration Using CUDA

According to advancements in video technology, there are lots of needs for various special effects of videos. The conventional image-transform effects could be applied to video streams, but non-photorealistic rendering effects are not easy to apply. For example, cartoon or illustration effects have expensive costs in video transformation which makes it difficult to execute in real-time. In this...

Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision-Making

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Real-Time Rendering of Real World Environments

1 E-mail: {davemc,nyland,popescu,lastra,mccue}@cs.unc.edu Abstract: One of the most important goals of interactive computer graphics is to allow a user to freely walk around a virtual recreation of a real environment that looks as real as the world around us. But hand-modeling such a virtual environment is inherently limited and acquiring the scene model using devices also presents challenges. ...

Building a Community of Real-World Cryptographers