Flashes and curtains

Flashes and curtains.

Mycetyoma in a horse--curtains.

To the Editor, With this letter we provide an update on a case of eumycetoma caused by Madurella mycetomatis in a mare that we previously reported on [1]. The mare was euthanized in May 2013 at age 9 years following a case of acute colic. Throughout her life, the mare foaled three times and had one miscarriage. During the 6 years between the first diagnosis and euthanasia, abundant granulation ...

Photovoltaics: solar cells on curtains.

Photovoltaic devices directly convert solar energy into electricity, and thus are highly attractive for a wide range of applications. Although the energy harvested by solar cell technology accounts for only about 0.04% of today’s global energy consumption1, it is one of the fastestgrowing energy sectors, in part because of the vast research and development efforts that have been undertaken in r...

Optical flashes and GeV-TeV flashes from gamma-ray bursts

The optical flash caught by ROTSE in GRB 990123 overlaps with the MeV radiation front. This overlapping has two implications: (1) If the flash has a synchrotron origin, the electrons emitting optical radiation must also create a GeV-TeV flash by inverse Compton scattering of the MeV photons. The high-energy flash can be much stronger than its optical counterpart and comparable with the main MeV...

Physically Based Real-time Animation of Curtains

We propose a novel model for curtain real-time animation, which not only significantly reduces the time of rendering, but is also able to maintain visually appealing results. Conventional physically based models for cloth simulations are typically dense sheets of interwoven strings, with particles of finite mass at the intersections. While it seems to be an accurate model for cloth, it also imp...