The application of chaotic advection to polymer blends and composites originated in the corresponding author’s laboratory in 1991. Research has resulted in smart blending devices now being adopted by industry. In the accompanying talk, key concepts and recent results are described where polymer melt components are more controllably formed in situ into a wide variety of blend morphologies and wh...

In this paper we introduce an approach to high-level parameterisation of captured mesh sequences of actor performance for real-time interactive animation control. High-level parametric control is achieved by non-linear blending between multiple mesh sequences exhibiting variation in a particular movement. For example walking speed is parameterised by blending fast and slow walk sequences. A hyb...

In this paper a variable-free parametric representation of manifolds is discussed, using transfinite interpolation or approximation, i.e. function blending in some functional space. This is a powerful approach to generation of curves, surfaces and solids (and even higher dimensional manifolds) by blending lower dimensional vector-valued functions. Transfinite blending, e.g. used in Gordon-Coons...

In this paper, we present an integrated framework of on-line motion blending for locomotion generation. We first provide a novel scheme for incremental timewarping, which always guarantees that the time goes forward. Combining the idea of motion blending with that of posture rearrangement, we introduce a motion transition graph to address on-line motion blending and transition simultaneously. G...

Blending of imported and domestic coal is becoming of increasing importance. Until recently, coal blending in power stations was mainly adopted to reduce the cost of generation and increase the use of indigenous or more readily available coal. Low-grade (high ash) coal can be mixed with higher grade (imported) coal without deterioration in thermal performance of the boiler, thus reducing the co...

We present a framework for conceptual blending – a concept invention method that is advocated in cognitive science as a fundamental, and uniquely human engine for creative thinking. Herein, we employ the search capabilities of ASP to find commonalities among input concepts as part of the blending process, and we show how our approach fits within a generalised conceptual blending workflow. Speci...

This paper presents a series of simulation experiments related to the interaction of memory and analogy-making in the AMBR model. This interaction makes it possible to demonstrate blending between superficially dissimilar episodes as a result of the established analogical mapping between them and of superficially and structurally dissimilar episodes as a result of a double analogy with a third ...

An algorithm for blending multiple-exposure images of a scene into an image with maximum information content is introduced. The algorithm partitions the image domain into subimages and for each subimage selects the image that contains the most information about the subimage. The selected images are then blended together using monotonically decreasing blending functions that are centered at the ...

Given a protein, analyzing the geometric structure of protein is fundamental for the study of a protein folding, docking, interactions between proteins, and so on. One of the important geometric analyses is computing the molecular surface of protein. Discussed in this paper is an efficient algorithm to compute such a molecular surface of protein via the concept of blending operation among atoms...

In this paper trans nite interpolation/approximation is discussed. This is a powerful approach to generation of curves, surfaces and solids (and even higher dimensional manifolds) by blending lower dimensional geometric objects. Trans nite blending, e.g. used in Gordon-Coons patches, is well known to mathematicians and CAD people. It is presented here in a very simple conceptual and computation...