With the increasing complexity of photo-realistic scenes, the question of building and placing objects in three-dimensional scenes is becoming ever more di cult. While the question of placement of rigid objects has captured the attention of researchers in the past, this work presents an intuitive and interactive scheme to properly place deformable objects with the aid of free-form deformation t...

We investigate the deformation of D–brane world–volumes in curved backgrounds. We calculate the leading corrections to the boundary conformal field theory involving the background fields, and in particular we study the correlation functions of the resulting system. This allows us to obtain the world–volume deformation, identifying the open string metric and the noncommutative deformation parame...

In situ deformation studies of polycrystalline materials using diffraction are an established method to understand elastic and plastic deformation of materials. Studies of active deformation mechanisms, the interplay of deformation with texture and ultimately the development of predictive capabilities for deformation modeling are an active field of research. Parameters studied by diffraction ar...

b a ckground: the role of lectins is important in interaction between pathogens and mosquito vectors. this study was performed to identify agglutinin activities of protein molecules on the midgut of culex pipiens . m e t hods: c u lex pipiens was reared in insectray condition and the midguts of males and females (blood fed and un- fed) were dissected separately in tris-hcl buffer. the extracts ...

We construct Abel maps for a stable curve X. Namely, for each one-parameter deformation of X to a smooth curve, having regular total space, and each integer d ≥ 1, we construct by specialization a map αdX : Ẋ d → P d X , where Ẋ ⊆ X is the smooth locus, and P d X is the moduli scheme for balanced line bundles on semistable curves over X. For d = 1, we show that αX extends to a map α 1 X : X → P...

We provide first explicite examples of quantum deformations of D = 4 conformal algebra with mass-like deformation parameters, in applications to quantum gravity effects related with Planck mass. It is shown that one of the classical r-matrices defined on the Borel subalgebra of sl(4) with o(4, 2) reality conditions describes the light-cone κ-deformation of D = 4 Poincaré algebra. We embed this ...

This paper focuses on an important aspect of cardiac surgical simulation, which is the deformation of mesh models to form smooth joins between them. A novel algorithm based on the Laplacian deformation method is developed. It extends the Laplacian method to handle deformation of 2-manifold mesh models with 1-D boundaries, and joining of 1-D boundaries to form smooth joins. Test results show tha...

Micrograin Superplasticity refers to the ability of fine-grained materials (1 µm < d < 10 μm, where d is the grain size) to exhibit extensive neck-free elongations during deformation at elevated temperatures. Over the past three decades, good progress has been made in rationalizing this phenomenon. The present paper provides a brief review on this progress in several areas that have been relate...

We provide first explicite examples of quantum deformations of D = 4 conformal algebra with mass-like deformation parameters, in applications to quantum gravity effects related with Planck mass. It is shown that one of the classical r-matrices defined on the Borel subalgebra of sl(4) with o(4, 2) reality conditions describes the light-cone κ-deformation of D = 4 Poincaré algebra. We embed this ...