Ornamental brickwork

An Investigation into Reinforced Brickwork Beams Using Quetia Bond

A Potential Ornamental Plant Drug

Marigold botanically identifies as Tagetes (Compositae) genus is an ethnobotanically known drug, used from ancient times in the Indian system of Medicine for the treatment of rheumatism, cold, bronchitis, eye diseases, ulcers etc. Tagetes species, commonly known as marigold, are grown as ornamental plants and thrive in varied agro-climates. The genus has been recognized as a potential source of...

Ornamental fish in veterinary practice

Veterinary practice is a private business that provides professional health care to many species of animals. There is now an increasing division of the veterinary profession into specialist niches, and exotic pet medicine is currently an expanding area. Many veterinarians are becoming speciesspecific treating only horses or poultry, or food-fish. Some are discipline-specific such as dermatologi...

Voronoi Diagrams and Ornamental Design

A set of points in the plane induces a Voronoi diagram, a division of the plane based on proximity to points in the set. Voronoi diagrams have been used extensively in engineering and scientific disciplines, but the possibility of using them for creating abstract ornamental designs is largely unexplored. I present some techniques for creating attractive ornamental designs using Voronoi diagrams...

Sassafras: A Neglected Native Ornamental

common (and generic) name is of obscure origin, but it was used by the French settlers in Florida as early as the sixteenth century. The tree is characteristically a plant of forest margins and clearings, but it also is often somewhat weedy, appearing in old fields, hedgerows, and along roadsides where it rapidly forms clumps by means of suckers and stolons. It is often thought of as being a ra...