We introduce PileBars, a new class of animated thumbnail-bars supporting browsing of large image datasets (hundreds or thousands of images). Since the bar is meant to be just one element of a GUI, it covers only a small portion of the screen; yet it provides a global view of the entire dataset, without any scrolling panel. Instead, thumbnails are dynamically rearranged, resized and reclustered ...

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Most quasi-static variational models of fracture are based on the splitting of the energy functional into the sum of two terms: bulk, depending on the displacement gradient, and surface, depending on the displacement discontinuities. In this paper we consider the simplest one-dimensional problem of this type, a bar stretched by a given axial displacement, and systematically compare two alternat...

The lightness of equiluminance regions of a light source appears different due to distinct properties of surrounding surfaces (lightness induction). For example, for a bar-grating stimulus in relatively low spatial-frequency, the same gray bars are perceived lighter when they are flanked by black bars, compared to those flanked by white bars (lightness contrast; Helson, 1963). However, the dire...

We present neutron scattering measurements of the dynamic structure factor of liquid helium confined to nanoscales in 25 and 34 Å mean pore diameter porous media over a range of pressures and temperatures. At low temperature and low pressure we observe well-defined phonon-roton P-R modes characteristic of liquid helium containing Bose-Einstein condensation BEC . As pressure is increased above 2...

We examine the bar instability in models with an exponential disk and a cuspy NFW-like dark matter (DM) halo inspired by cosmological simulations. Bar evolution is studied as a function of numerical resolution in a sequence of models spanning 10 DM particles including a multi-mass model with an effective resolution of 10. The goal is to find convergence in dynamical behaviour. We characterize t...