Pleasing and displeasing things

New Ways of Creating Pleasing Shapes

Powerful computers together with sophisticated programs for geometric modeling and graphical rendering allow to create interesting and artistic displays in novel ways. Computers can playa role in the definition of new shapes, e.g., through the use of abstract geometrical generator functions, as well as in the realization of these shapes, e.g., by drawing exact blueprints or by milling parts. On...

Graphoto: Aesthetically Pleasing Charts for Casual Information Visualization

Graphoto is a framework that automatically generates a photo or adjusts an existing one to match a line graph. Since aesthetics is an important element in visualizing personal data, Graphoto provides users with aesthetically pleasing displays for casual line graph information visualization. More specifically, after creating a line graph of the input data, a photo that resembles the input data o...

Comparison of cephalometric norms of esthetically pleasing faces.

OBJECTIVE To establish cephalometric norms of a sample of aesthetically pleasing Pakistani faces and to analyze differences and similarities with accepted standards for Caucasians. STUDY DESIGN Analytical cross sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Carried out at Alvi Dental Hospital, Karachi, from August 2007 to February 2008. METHODOLOGY Cephalometric tracings were analyzed on a ...

Covering Things with Things

An abstract NP-hard covering problem is presented and xed-parameter tractable algorithms for this problem are described. The running times of the algorithms are expressed in terms of three parameters: n, the number of elements to be covered, k, the number of sets allowed in the covering, and d, the combinatorial dimension of the problem. The rst algorithm is deterministic and has running time O...

Mulla Sadra and God's Detailed Knowledge of Things