Reciprocal frame structures made easy

Key Frame Animation Made Easy With GraphicMentor

Traditionally the topic of key frame animation has been too complex a topic to be covered in introductory computer graphics courses. The difficulties in including this topic have stemmed from the need for relatively difficult mathematical concepts such as B-spline interpolation in order to generate frames for the animation. In this paper we present improvements to a pedagogical tool called Grap...

Frame Semantics Annotation Made Easy with DBpedia

Crowdsourcing techniques applied to natural language processing have recently experienced a steady growth and represent a cheap and fast, albeit valid, solution to create benchmarks and training data. Nevertheless, some particularly complex tasks such as semantic role annotation have been rarely conducted in a crowdsourcing environment, due to their intrinsic difficulty. In this paper, we prese...

Computational Design and Construction of Notch-free Reciprocal Frame Structures

A reciprocal frame (RF) is a self-standing 3D structure typically formed by a complex grillage created as an assembly of simple atomic RF-units, which are in turn made up of three or more sloping rods forming individual units. While RF-structures are attractive given their simplicity, beauty, and ease of deployment; creating such structures, however, is difficult and cumbersome. In this work, w...

Atom Bomb Made Easy

Concurrent Programming Made Easy

The task of programming concurrent systems is substantially more difficult than the task of programming sequential systems with respect to both correctness and efficiency. In this paper we describe a constraint-based methodology for writing concurrent applications. A system is modeled as: (a) a set of processes containing a sequence of “markers” denoting the processes points of interest; and (b...