Disparagement humor refers to communication that derogates or denigrates a certain target but elicits amusement. Blending two contradictory elements in terms of social approvability, the paradox disparagement has sparked three major questions: how does amusement arise from disparagement? What determines whether an attempt at is perceived be funny offensive? are unique aftereffects this...

Overview This document contains additional explanatory text supporting our Eurographics 2006 paper: “Cross dissolve without cross fade: preserving contrast, color and salience in image compositing”, M. Grundland, R. Vohra, G. P. Williams, and N. A. Dodgson, Computer Graphics Forum, 25(3), E. Gröller and L. Szirmay-Kalos (guest editors), 2006 That paper is terse in order to fit within the ten pa...