In this paper we present an efficient face-based connectivity coding technique for the special class of quadrilateral and the hybrid triangular-quadrilateral meshes. This work extends the main ideas of non-split encoding presented by the first contribution of the authors (Khattab, Abd El-Latif, Abdel Wahab and Tolba, 2007) for triangle meshes and improves over the compression results provided s...

A generalized triangle group is a group that can be presented in the form G = x, y | x p = y q = w(x, y) r = 1 where p, q, r ≥ 2 and w(x, y) is a cyclically reduced word of length at least 2 in the free product Z p * Z q = x, y | x p = y q = 1. Rosenberger has conjectured that every generalized triangle group G satisfies the Tits alternative. It is known that the conjecture holds except possibl...

Realism of rendered human skin can be strongly enhanced by taking into account skin wrinkles. However, modeling wrinkles is a difficult task, and considerable time and effort are necessary to achieve satisfactory results. This paper presents a simple method to easily model wrinkles on human skin, nevertheless taking into account the properties of real wrinkles. Wrinkles are specified using intu...

We estimated survival of Cassin’s Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) and Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) from recapture rates during 1994–1997. For both species, a two ‘‘age’’-class model provided the best fit. Estimates of local adult survival were significantly lower for Cassin’s Auklet (0.672 6 0.047) than for Rhinoceros Auklet (0.829 6 0.095). Our estimate of survival appears lower ...

A complex hyperbolic triangle group is a group generated by three complex reflections fixing complex slices (complex geodesics) in complex hyperbolic space. Our purpose in this paper is to improve the result in [3] and to discuss discreteness of complex hyperbolic triangle groups of type (n, n,∞; k).

background: complete atrioventricular block (av block) is a serious complication of slow pathway ablation therapy in the treatment of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (avnrt).   the present study was aimed at determining whether the electroanatomical pace mapping of koch’s triangle could significantly improve the safety, efficiency, and efficacy of selective slow pathway ablation i...

Complex hyperbolic triangle groups are representations of a hyperbolic (p, q, r) reflection triangle group to the group of holomorphic isometries of complex hyperbolic space H C , where the generators fix complex lines. In this paper, we obtain all the discrete and faithful complex hyperbolic (3, 3, n) triangle groups. Our result solves a conjecture of Schwartz [16] in the case when p = q = 3.

We take a fresh look at voting theory, in particular at the notion of manipulation, by employing the geometry of the Saari triangle. This yields a geometric proof of the Gibbard/Satterthwaite theorem, and new insight into what it means to manipulate the vote. Next, we propose two possible strengthenings of the notion of manipulability (or weakenings of the notion of non-manipulability), and ana...