This paper investigates the phenomenon of slant fracture observed in stable tearing tests of many ductile materials, where an initially flat crack, loaded under remote Mode I conditions, tends to grow into a slant crack and stay in the slant configuration until final fracture. In an effort to identify potential reasons why cracks prefer to grow in a slant manner, three-dimensional finite elemen...

Many transform based image compression methods have been experimented till now. This paper proposes novel image compression method using hybrid slant transform. Slant transform is used as base transform to focus on global features of an image. Sinusoidal orthogonal transforms like DCT, DST, Hartley and Real-DFT are paired with slant transform to generate hybrid slant wavelet transform. Performa...

In this paper we find examples of slant surfaces in the nearly Kähler six sphere. First, we characterize two-dimensional small and great spheres which are slant. Their description is given in terms of the associative 3-form in ImO. Later on, we classify the slant surfaces of S6 which are orbits of a maximal torus in G2. Among them we find a one parameter family of minimal orbits with arbitrary ...

Flock's "A Possible Optical Basis for Monocular Slant Perception" is criticized as being a theory of stimuli rather than a theory of perception. To account for accurate monocular slant perception, the theory requires 9 assumptions, including the unproved ability of the eye to register random texture density. The alternative hypothesis is proposed that monocular visual slant is a function primar...

Two word slant correction methods are evaluated in this work using handwritten numeral strings. A method originally proposed to word slant correction is adapted in order to improve the results for handwritten numeral strings. The original and modified methods are evaluated by means of some interesting analyses on the NIST SD19 database. In these analyses the difference, in terms of slant estima...

In this article, we obtain sharp estimate of the Ricci curvature of quaternion slant, bi-slant and semi-slant submanifolds in a quaternion space form, in terms of the squared mean curvature.

Experiments critical of the effectiveness of variables of optical texture in evoking accurate judgments of slant are shown to be inappropriate, inadequate, or deficient. Experiments supporting linear perspective as a stimulus for slant are evaluated. The contention that perceived slant is a function primarily of linear perspective is shown to be oversimplified and hardly adequate to cope with t...

Slant aftereffect (SAE), the negative aftereffect of slant induced after prolonged observation of a surface, is considered as evidence that slant is encoded in the visual system. Because slant and tilt are mathematically independent dimensions, Stevens (Stevens, K. A. (1983a). Biological Cybernetics, 46, 183-195) assumed that slant and tilt are processed independently in the visual system. To c...

Flock's "A Possible Optical Basis for Monocular Slant Perception" is criticized as being a theory of stimuli rather than a theory of perception. To account for accurate monocular slant perception, the theory requires 9 assumptions, including the unproved ability of the eye to register random texture density. The alternative hypothesis is proposed that monocular visual slant is a function primar...

In this paper, we define slant helices in three dimensional Lie Groups with a bi-invariant metric and obtain a characterization of slant helices. Moreover, we give some relations between slant helices and their involutes, spherical images.