An Approach to Productive and Maintainable Shader Creation. Creating shaders has always been an advanced step for most developers; many game developers have never created GLSL code from scratch. The ...

Elvis Presley made 31 movies between 1956 and 1969. Many were not what you’d call good. The scripts were full of witless jokes; the narratives could be downright ludicrous. Though obviously a talented ...

Planar motion constraint occurs in visual odometry (VO) and SLAM for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) or mobile robots in general. Conventionally, two-point solvers can be nested to RANdom SAmple ...

Australian animator Adam Elliot is patient. Since 1996, he’s only made one feature and five stop-motion shorts (not including a 1996 hand-drawn animation, Human Behavioral Case Studies). His ...

In this paper, the bearing-only formation control problem of a class of second-order system with unknown disturbance is investigated, where the control law merely depends on the relative bearings ...

This theorem is foundational to our understanding of geometry. It describes the relationship between the sides of a right triangle on a flat plane: square the lengths of the short sides, a and b, add ...

Many extreme roller coaster these days have vertical loops. Have you noticed that these loops are never circular? Why is this? They all, also, seem to have the same similar ‘inverted teardrop’ ...

Humans walk and run over a wide range of speeds with remarkable efficiency. For steady locomotion, moving at different speeds requires the muscle–tendon units of the leg to modulate the amount of ...

The conventional theory about the snail shell shape of the mammalian cochlea is that it evolved essentially and perhaps solely to conserve space inside the skull. Recently, a theory proposed that the ...