Clearing Polaroid Negs

Simulate the Polaroid transfer effect, digitally

Most readers will probably be familiar with Polaroid instant picture products – you push the button and the print is ejected and develops right before your eyes. For many years professional image-makers have been using the unique features of this technology to create wonderfully textured images. The process involved substituting watercolor paper for the printing surface supplied by Polaroid. As...

Polaroid print film for fluorescein angiography.

Resolving lexical ambiguity computationally with spreading activation and Polaroid Words

Clearing , transparency , and collateral ∗

In an environment of Over-The-Counter trading with asymmetric information about the quality of the counterparty, we study traders’ incentives to screen their counterparties under different clearing arrangements. When traders can choose the clearing arrangement, they decide which types of transactions to clear under each arrangement, with significant consequences for transparency and collateral ...

Actuarial Research Clearing House

This article introduces actuaries to the concept of "copulas," a tool for understanding relationships among multivariate outcomes. A copula is a function that links univariate marginals to their full multivariate distribution. Copulas were introduced in 1959 in the context of probabilistic metric spaces. Recently, there has been a rapidly developing literature on the statistical properties and ...