This paper presents a prototype for an interface device which leverages the strengths of commercially available computer-aided-design (CAD) packages and the skills of pen-based designers in a single system. Using relatively conventional technology, a cathode ray tube (CRT) display and a touchscreen, the device connects the traditional skills of a designer with the power and advantages of a CAD ...

We present a new method for line drawing, triangle filling, polygon filling, and antialiasing. Current statistics show that our method improves line drawing and antialiasing about 6 times and polygon filling functions significantly over all existing methods. Specifically, it can improve finding the span extrema of polygons about 2 times and drawing the antialiased polygon edges more than 2 time...

This paper presents an approach for extracting and segmenting tables from Chinese ink documents based on a matrix model. An ink document is first modeled as a matrix containing ink rows, including writing and drawing ones. Each row consists of collinear ink lines containing ink characters. Together with their associated drawing rows, adjacent writing rows having an identical distribution of wri...

Recent debate amongst some sections of the diving community has concerned the relative benefits of using new ascent and decompression strategies based on calculations of the presence and behaviour of microbubbles. This debate has extended to concern over the relative safety of standard entry level agency decompression/no stop tables. The concern stems from the fact that recent research and opin...

The majority of diseases that are a significant challenge for public and individual heath are caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors. In this paper we introduce Lineage, a novel visual analysis tool designed to support domain experts that study such multifactorial diseases in the context of genealogies. Incorporating familial relationships between cases can provide insi...

In this paper, we consider K-class classification problem, a significant issue in machine learning or artificial intelligence. In this problem, we are given a training set of samples, where each sample is represented by a nominal-valued vector and is labeled as one of the predefined K classes. The problem asks to construct a classifier that predicts the classes of future samples with high accur...