A new algorithm for identifying vortices in complex flows is presented. The scheme uses both the vorticity and pressure fields. A skeleton line along the center of a vortex is produced by a two-step predictor-corrector scheme. The technique uses the vector field to move in the direction of the skeleton line and the scalar field to correct the location in the plane perpendicular to the skeleton ...

This paper presents a novel skeleton-based method for deforming meshes, based on an approximate skeleton. The major difference from previous skeleton-based methods is that they used the skeleton to control movement of vertices, whereas we use it to control the simplices defining the model. This allows errors, that occur near joints in other methods, to be spread over the whole mesh, giving smoo...

A novel intramolecular annulation of 1-(2-alkynylphenoxy)propan-2-ones catalyzed by iron, an economical and environmentally-benign transition metal, has been developed; this new atom-economical route includes dual C-H functionalizations to construct the naphthalen-1-ol or anthracen-1-ol skeletons.

We introduce additively-weighted straight skeletons as a new generalization of straight skeletons. An additively-weighted straight skeleton is the result of a wavefront-propagation process where, unlike in previous variants of straight skeletons, wavefront edges do not necessarily start to move at the begin of the propagation process but at later points in time. We analyze the properties of add...

In earlier work, we have developed the SkePU skeleton programming library for modern multicore systems equipped with one or more programmable GPUs. The library internally provides four types of implementations (implementation variants) for each skeleton: serial C++, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenCL targeting either CPU or GPU execution respectively. Deciding which implementation would run faster for a g...

An intriguing unanswered question about the evolution of bilateral animals with internal skeletons is how an internal skeleton evolved in the first place. Computational modeling of the development of bilateral symmetric organisms suggests an answer to this question. Our hypothesis is that an internal skeleton may have evolved from a bilaterally symmetric ancestor with an external skeleton. By g...

This paper presents the recognition of shapes for object retrieval in image databases using skeleton-based and contour-based representation by discrete curve evaluation and two consecutive primitive edges. Humans tend to use high-level concepts in everyday life. Object segmentation and recognition is the primary step of computer vision to achieve image retrieval of high-level image analysis. Co...

The impressive morphological diversification of vertebrates was achieved in part by innovation and modification of the pharyngeal skeleton. Extensive fate mapping in amniote models has revealed a primarily cranial neural crest derivation of the pharyngeal skeleton. Although comparable fate maps of amphibians produced over several decades have failed to document a neural crest derivation of vent...

The skeleton of a 2D shape is an important geometric structure in pattern analysis and computer vision. In this paper we study the skeleton of a 2D shape in a 2-manifoldM, based on a geodesic metric. We present a formal definition of the skeleton S(Ω) for a shape Ω inM and show several properties that make S(Ω) distinct from its Euclidean counterpart in R2. We further prove that for a shape seq...

Wireless sensor network design is critical and resource allocation is a major problem which remains to be solved satisfactorily. The discrete nature of sensor networks renders the existing skeleton extraction algorithms inapplicable. 3D topologies of sensor networks for practical scenarios are considered in this paper and the research carried out in the field of skeleton extraction for three di...