We present a method relying on expansion textures to add details such as folds on a surface. The user paints the expansion attributes on the surface (amount and direction of expansion, wavelength and regularity of folds), using either interactive or procedural tools. The modeling system generates the folds by calculating the new surface equilibrium. Results show that this tool allows CG artists...

Potters and sculptors perform their work in very awkward postures. The purpose of this study was to analyse these postures. The modified Nordic questionnaire was used to analyse musculoskeletal discomfort. Rapid entire body assessment (REBA) and rapid upper limb assessment (RULA) were used to evaluate the subjects' postures. There were no significant differences between times of discomfort and ...

Nutritional status, dietary and leisure-time physical activity patterns, and energy intake of 65 male metalworkers aged 19 to 58 years from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are described in the context of a surveillance build-up system. Mean body mass index was 25.0 kg/m2 (44.6% of the workers were overweight), and mean daily energy intake was 3,209.1 kcal, with a macronutrient distribution of 17.8%, 21...

In her feminization of Hawthorne’s famous Italian tales, Alcott made talented heroines not only objects but subjects their art. The excellent training many aspiring women sculptors follows the Oedipal patterns which oppressively dominate Nathaniel own Roman artworld. Being victimized by a Puritan ideal beauty that no living body could equal, Alcott’s feminized versions Marble Faun allude to Ame...

WE are all familiar with the story of the Tower of Babel, one of the strangest and most dramatic of the Old Testament. The peoples of the earth, having, at that time, a single universal language, and constituting apparently a single nation, arrive, under the leadership of the heroic Nimrod, on the fertile plains of Shinar. There they determine to erect a central city, and a colossal tower, wort...

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