Tensor Visualization and Defect Detection for Nematic Liquid Crystals using Shape Characteristics
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1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA {tjk, szhang}@cse.msstate.edu 2 Institut Curie, UMR CNRS 168, 26rue dUlm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France [email protected] 3 Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA [email protected] 4 Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA [email protected], [email protected]
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