Popping Kernels

Dynamic Skinning for Popping Dance

This paper presents an efficient technique to enhance the realism of character animation by adding muscle dynamics. Focusing on the isometric contraction of muscles, the proposed algorithm takes normal mesh and clenched mesh, and uses the disparity between them to simulate the skin vibration. The skin simulation algorithm is integrated with an example-based skinning, and shows real-time perform...

New Bounds for the Balloon Popping Problem

In digital goods auctions, also known as unlimited supply auctions, an auctioneer sells a collection of identical items to unit-demand bidders. As usual in this setting, when getting the item, a bidder experiences a certain utility which is unknown to the auctioneer. Given this restriction, the auctioneer wants to design a mechanism, i.e., a set of auction rules, so as to raise as much revenue ...

Avalanches of popping bubbles in collapsing foams.

We report acoustic measurements of popping bubbles during the collapsing of aqueous foams. The sound pattern is analyzed using classical methods of statistical physics. It is found that membrane rupture concerns a wide variety of situations: small and large membranes at the air/foam interface. Avalanches of popping bubbles are put into evidence. Time durations in between successive pops seem to...

Opioid-related issues "popping" up again.

For centuries the world has appreciated the potent analgesic qualities and adverse effects/addictive qualities of opioids. Evidence of potential poppy plant use (preserved remains of cultivated poppy seeds and pods) may date back to the fourth millennium BC (2). Opium was proposed as a remedy for multiple ailments in 1552 BC in the Ebers papyrus. Drug use in ancient central Asia is evidenced by...

Reproducing kernels , Bergman kernels , Poisson kernels