“Strange” Objects of Art&Science

Detecting Strange Objects via Visual Attributes

We are capable of developing algorithms for detecting objects by learning a comprehensive object model based on their parts and visual attributes. These models usually fail to perform well on atypical images, however people are still able to recognize strange objects that are not completely following our model. In this work we focus on the question of what makes an object looks strange? We woul...

Strange Objects in the Complex Plane

Julia sets are examined as examples of strange objects which arise in the study of long time properties of simple dynamical systems. Technically they are the closure of the set of unstable cycles of analytic maps. Physically, they are sets of points which lead to chaotic behavior. The map f ( z ) = z2+ p is analyzed for smallp where the Julia set is a closed curve, and for largep where the Juli...

Category of Polygroup Objects

category of polygroup objects

Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars

We present the results of numerical simulations of stationary, spherically outflowing, e ± pair winds, with total luminosities in the range 10 34 − 10 42 ergs s −1. In the concrete example described here, the wind injection source is a hot, bare, strange star, predicted to be a powerful source of e ± pairs created by the Coulomb barrier at the quark surface. We find that photons dominate in the...