The chapter makes emphasis on the formal analysis of the shapes of the natural objects, relating them with the movements that are active during their formation. A section of it refers to the shapes of leaves as representations of polar equations, with a “point of arrest” of zero growth in...
Preston’s equation is a general model describing the egg shape of birds. The parameters of Preston’s equation are usually estimated after re-expressing it as the Todd-Smart equation and scaling the egg’s actual length to two. This method assumes that
You could easily draw that shape in any vector drawing tool and snag the SVG code for it. If you need help with that,this article should be useful. I went poking about stock photography sites to find some, just for fun, andI found some at Shutterstockthat were about what I was trying ...
When I began my formal training at the Vevey School of Photography (CEPV), I was trained in flash photography and how to create an ambiance using coherent light to embellish the object of the photograph. I immediately enjoyed this aspect of the work, to be able to create and control the ...
where R denotes the element set of a conv kernel (usually being set as 3 × 3), 𝑝𝑛pn enumerates the locations in R. To obtain the output value of position 𝑝0p0, we need to multiply the positions’ value 𝑥(𝑝0+𝑝𝑛)x(p0+pn) (n ∈{1,9}∈{1,9}) with the cor...
The response time of low-driving-force (slow-rate) SMA actuators, in which thermo-mechanical equilibrium is achieved throughout the transformation, is typically restricted by the rate of heat transfer rather than the rate of phase transformation in the SMA element. In fact, SMA wires can be he...
However, compared with surfaces from semilandmarks, they would likely lead to different results if used to build finite element models. Finally, we should emphasise that consistency is not the same as accuracy [7]. It is tempting to conclude that the remarkable consistency of surface shapes ...
[49]. Another increasingly common application of surfaces arising from geometric morphometric analyses is to use them to build finite element models [50,51]. Thus, an important question arises, which is considered in a follow-on study [52]: how do different semilandmarking approaches perform in...