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In this paper we utilize stereo images and video frames of real scenes to automatically generate artistic stereoscopic views with a hand-painted appearance (“painterly rendering”). The approach is motivated by contemporary artists who painted stereo image pairs on canvases. Although a variety of monoscopic painterly rendering algorithms have been proposed in the literature, the design of painte...

The polymer solar cells were fabricated by a novel solution coating process, the roller painting. The roller painted film composed of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) has smoother surface than the spin coated film. Since the roller painting is accompanied with shear and normal stresses and is also a s low drying process, the process induces eff...

This study provides a three-dimensional (3D) analysis of differences between the 3D morphology of active and inactive human X interphase chromosomes (Xa and Xi territories). Chromosome territories were painted in formaldehyde-fixed, three-dimensionally intact human diploid female amniotic fluid cell nuclei (46, XX) with X-specific whole chromosome compositive probes. The colocalization of a 4,6...

Conspicuousness to predators frequently has been invoked as a cost of sexually selected traits, but conspicuousness to prey has not We tested for the latter using rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina americana) as the predator. Previous work on this species showed that the red spots on male wings are intrasexually selected and reduce survival. Since female wings lack red spots, we first compared mal...

The creation of interactive worlds, such as those in video games, often include a set of computer controlled characters that must intelligently act and react in response to dynamic input from the user. These interactive behaviours usually require authors to programmatically define each behavior, reaction, and interaction the character should take in response to user input across a range of scen...

P turtles (Chrysemys picta) are common residents of shallow lakes and marshes across much of North America east of the Rocky Mountains—so common, in fact, that the species has become a “model organism” for studies on the ecology and evolution of chelonians (Wilbur and Morin 1988). The natural history of painted turtles differs from that of most other species in an important respect, however. Wh...

—The Upper Triassic Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation in north-central New Mexico yields one of the most extensive and significant Revueltian (early-mid Norian) tetrapod faunas known. Particularly significant aspects of this fauna are: (1) its long history of collection and study, including designation of important type specimens; and (2) the richness of the unit, includin...

Freshwater turtles as a group are more resistant to anoxia than other vertebrates, but some species, such as painted turtles, for reasons not fully understood, can remain anoxic at winter temperatures far longer than others. Because buffering of lactic acid by the shell of the painted turtle is crucial to its long-term anoxic survival, we have tested the hypothesis that previously described dif...