Nadia Rosenthal

Computer Animation Nadia

The main goal of computer animation is to synthesize the desired motion effect which is a mixing of natural phenomena, perception and imagination. The animator designs the object's dynamic behavior with his mental representation of causality. He/she imagines how it moves, gets out of shape or reacts when it is pushed, pressed, pulled, or twisted. So, the animation system has to provide the user...

1 COMPUTER ANIMATION Nadia

Most of the phenomena which may be represented on the screen of a workstation are typically time-dependent. The techniques of computer graphics allow the construction of 3D graphical objects using geometric modeling techniques. Moreover, in a 3D space, scenes are viewed using virtual cameras and they may be lit by synthetic light sources. In order to visualize these phenomena at any given time,...

Nadia Behizadeh Sociocultural Theory

Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

Key points • Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome should be suspected in cases of recurrent facial palsy associated with swelling of orofacial structures and/or a furrowed tongue. • Biopsy of suggestive lesions typically reveals noncaseating granulomas with perivascular and lymphatic inflammatory cell infiltration. • The pathophysiology involves an immunologically mediated inflammatory response. • Tre...

Robert W. Rosenthal

Robert Rosenthal died on February 27, 2002, of a sudden heart attack. He was just 57, in the prime of his professional life. He is missed and loved by the many friends, colleagues and students who knew him. His incisive, constructive views helped develop many new ideas, and even inspired directions of research that do not explicitly bear his name. The fact that he never took received wisdom for...