Events unfold over time, i.e., they have a beginning and endpoint. Previous studies have illustrated the importance of endpoints for the perception and memory of various events (Lakusta & Landau, 2005, 2012; Papafragou, 2010; Regier & Zheng, 2009; Strickland & Keil, 2011; Zacks & Swallow, 2007). However, this work has not compared endpoints to other potentially salient points in the internal te...

This paper proposes a classiication of existing le formats for computer animation. File formats for computer animation store and describe the evolution of virtual scenes over time. They permit applications, which produce animating scenes, to share and to exchange information. File Formats are classiied by the information they store and by what means they store the information.

• TVJT: A puppet makes a statement about a story. A child’s task is to reward or correct the puppet based on the statement. • Previous studies: Children allow the long-distance zibun interpretation. Otsu (1990): disproportional salience of potential antecedents (zibun’s picture) Okabe (2008): failure to satisfy Condition of Plausible Dissent (Crain & Thornton 1998) Taro-wa Akira-ga zibun-ni pen...

As high performance computing (HPC) continues to grow in scale and complexity, energy becomes a critical constraint in the race to exascale computing. The days of “performance at all cost” are coming to an end. While performance is still a major objective, future HPC will have to deliver desired performance under the energy constraint. Among various power management methods, power capping is a ...

The objective of our research is to develop computer methods to accurately visualize patients in 3-dimensions using advanced imaging and data acquisition devices such as conebeam CT (Computerized Tomography) and mandibular motion capture. Data from these devices were integrated for 3D patient-specific visualization, modeling and animation. We are developing generic methods that can be used with...

Puppet is a popular declarative framework for specifying and managing complex system configurations. The Puppet framework includes a domain-specific language with several advanced features inspired by object-oriented programming, including user-defined resource types, ‘classes’ with a form of inheritance, and dependency management. Like most real-world languages, the language has evolved in an ...

A simple system for the automatic generation of time-lapse animations has been created at the Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The system consists of two small Perl programs and a static web page, and relies heavily on two open source software packages: LWP::Simple, and ImageMagick. The first program, tlget.pl, runs for ...