Singing synthesis is a rising musical art form gaining popularity amongst composers and end-listeners alike. To date, this art form is largely confined to offline boundaries of the music studio, whereas a large part music is about live performances. This calls for a real-time synthesis system readily deployable for onstage applications. SERAPHIM is a wavetable synthesis system that is lightweig...

R346 Current Biology 26, R343–R354, May 9 odoratus L. Second, he dissects the fl ower cutting the petal and ovary with scalpel and observes it with magnifying glass. Third, he makes sketches and photographs the parts of the dissected fl ower. Fourth, he models its form and structure using 3ds Max (3DCG software). Fifth, he renders separate parts and creates a composition using Adobe Photoshop. ...

For the first time in the short history of electronic publication, rotatable and zoomable 3D structures of biomolecules were integrated within the PDF file of the recent TiBS paper ‘Grasping molecular structures through publication-integrated 3D models’ by Kumar and Ziegler et al. [1]. This represents a major step forward in effective and simple communication of complex 3D data, one which has a...

It is common in the fields of rock and environmental magnetism to unmix magnetic mineral components using statistical methods that decompose various types of magnetization curves (e.g., acquisition, demagnetization, or backfield). A number of programs have been developed over the past decade that are frequently used by the rock magnetic community, however many of these programs are either outda...

One barrier to the uptake of Geocomputation is that, unlike GIS, it has no system or toolbox that provides easy access to useful functionality. This paper describes an experimental environment, GeoVISTA Studio, that attempts to address this shortcoming. Studio is a Java-based, visual programming environment that allows for the rapid, programming free development of complex data exploration and ...

This paper addresses the application of integrated chargeability and resistivity method and grade data in modeling and evaluation of copper deposits. We argue that the relationship between IP, Rs and grade data may be used for modeling and reserve estimation and tested this argument for Sarbisheh copper deposit that is located in eastern Iran. Geology and mineralization situation of Sarbisheh d...

This contribution describes robust methods to provide a freeviewpoint video visualisation of sport scenes using a multicamera set-up. This allows generation of novel views of actions from any angle and is of interest for visualisation in TV productions. The system utilises 3D reconstruction techniques previously developed for studio use. This paper discusses some experiences found while applyin...

This contribution describes an automatic method to retrieve the diffuse radiometric surface model of moving persons or other objects along with the object geometry using a multi-camera system. The multi-camera equipped studio allows synchronised capture of the foreground action and a visual hull computation is then used to compute a 3D model of that scene. The diffuse surface reflection paramet...

Visualization exists from the first known maps to today. Developments in computer science and technologies have resulted in arising new techniques besides maps for visualization of geographic data. Combining technologies such as image processing, computer graphics, animation, simulation, multimedia, and virtual reality, computers can help us present information in a new way so that patterns can...