In a virtual sculpture project, we represent the material to be sculpted as a set of volume elements (voxels). Sculpture operations of subtraction and addition are applied on these voxels with tools with various shapes and sizes. A major advantage of our system is that sculpted objects can then be used as new tools, because the same model is used for both objects and tools. This is a multiresol...

Theoretical review of ‘mining pit lakes’ indicates that like natural lakes such lakes display a huge diversity. They are typically in a non-equilibrium state with respect to their surroundings. Hence, at the decommissioning phase of mining operation a detailed technical study are required on different aspects of such created water bodies considering its morphometry, geology, hydrology, water qu...

The sense of feeling can effectively be used to enforce virtual artistic activities like virtual sculpting or modeling. In this paper, we describe how a virtual sculpture system has been extended with haptical feedback. In practice, we use the scalar field defining the implicit surface being modeled to efficiently compute several type of force feedback. We present a method for combining these f...

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In this study, a hybrid intelligent model has been designed to predict groundwater inflow to a mine pit during its advance. Novel hybrid method coupling artificial neural network (ANN) with genetic algorithm (GA) called ANN-GA, was utilised. Ratios of pit depth to aquifer thickness, pit bottom radius to its top radius, inverse of pit advance time and the hydraulic head (HH) in the observation w...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of enamel bonding agents on pit and fissure sealant retention in a well-isolated situation. materials and methods: thirty-two patients (6-9 years old, all males) with four fully erupted permanent first molars were selected. their occlusal, buccal, and lingual fissures were sealed according to a split-mouth design using concise light ...