A number of Web Browser based applications have been developed to serve in the challenging environment of the Bates storage-stretcher ring operation. Most of them are accelerator physics applications that require intensive data processing and analyzing efforts, with moderate tasks of interfacing with the control system. The basic idea of developing applications using a commercial Web Browser is...

Computer Aided Architectural Design systems offer a broad scope of drawing and modeling techniques for the designer. Nevertheless, they offer limited support for the early phases of the design process. One reason is that the level of abstraction is too low: the user can define walls and such in great precision, but no support is offered to define global or structural characteristics of the desi...

Existing computer technologies poorly support the ideation phase common to graphic design practice. Finding and indexing visual material to assist the process of ideation often falls on the designer, leading to user experiences that are less than ideal. To inform development of computer systems to assist graphic designers in the ideation phase of the design process, we conducted interviews with...

Traditional Chinese folk graphics has been the rich cultural heritage of the nation, which provided a wealth of design elements for the modern graphic design. Modern graphic design blends with traditional Chinese folk patterns to give them new characteristics of the times, not only represents the traditional culture and innovation, but also indicates that China's graphic design is entering a ne...

Technological advances that facilitate the infusion of intelligence and graphics into interfaces provide an important opportunity for research on cognitive aspects of visual representations to influence the design of smart graphic user interfaces to information-rich applications. In this context, we report on a cognitive model of multimodal comprehension and empirical results on interactive mul...

A straight-forward design of graphic equalizers with minimumphase behavior based on recently developed higher-order bandshelving filters is presented. Due to the high filter order, the gain in one band is almost completely independent from the gain in the other bands. Although no special care will be taken to design filters with complementary edges except for a suitable definition of the cut-of...

Optically variable pigment technologies for markings and inks have increased in use as overt protection methods for document and product security. These technologies use optical reflective effects including interference technologies that create angular dependent color changes. Novel developments in different inorganic and organic pigments offer potentially new optical performance for both overt...