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Digitization of the Inscriptions on the Monuments of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh Region

This article discusses the efforts of the DH LAB (EPFL) to preserve Armenian cultural heritage in Artsakh, particularly inscriptions on monuments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Using Digital Humanities (DH) technology, the project aims to collect, systema ...

2023

Design using randomness: a new dimension for metallurgy

William Curtin

High entropy alloys add a new dimension, atomic-scale randomness and the associated scale-dependent composition fluctuations, to the traditional metallurgical axes of time-temperature-composition-microstructure. Alloy performance is controlled by the energ ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

A unified description of ordering in HCP Mg-RE alloys

Anirudh Raju Natarajan

High throughput first-principles calculations were employed to unravel the thermodynamic stability of two sets of hierarchical phases, β′′′P and β′′′S, in Mg-RE (rare-earth) alloys. The β′′′P orderings (with compositions greater than xRE=0.125) are predict ...

Elsevier2017

Augmented reality for non-rigid surfaces

Julien Pilet

Augmented Reality (AR) is the process of integrating virtual elements in reality, often by mixing computer graphics into a live video stream of a real scene. It requires registration of the target object with respect to the cameras. To this end, some appro ...

EPFL2008

Synthesis of superposition images for watches, valuable articles and publicity

Roger Hersch, Sylvain Chosson

The present invention aims at synthesizing superposition images formed either by band moire shapes or by shape level lines for making the information forwarded by valuable articles or by time pieces such as watches and clocks more dynamic, as well as for i ...

2007

Method and apparatus for generating halftone images by evolutionary screen dot contours

Roger Hersch

The present invention is related to the synthesis, display and printing of halftone images. The invention comprises a method capable of generating screen elements with sophisticated screen dot shapes such as artistic shapes, microletters and ideograms. The ...

2004

Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography.

Roger Hersch

The following topics were dealt with: artistic imaging; typography tools and methods; non-Latin type tools; typographic creation; ornamental patterns; fonts and design; page styles and structures; time management and multimedia; electronic and paper docume ...

Springer-Verlag1998

Coherent processing of character skeletal forms

Roger Hersch

It is well known that in the general context the similarity relation is very fuzzy and hard to define. Unfortunately, the intuitive notion of similarity is not a transitive relation: knowing that A is similar to B and that B is similar to C does not necess ...

Elsevier1997

Visual and Technical Aspects of Type

Roger Hersch

Visual and Technical Aspects of Type gives an introduction to the rules of font design and describes how fonts and their metrics are managed by computers. It is the first book that contains contributions from both type creators and computer scientists. The ...

Cambridge University Press1993

Teaching digital typography

Roger Hersch

Digital typography is a very specialized field that offers two widely different yet complementary aspects: art and computer science. The authors present Project Didot, which is all about teaching digital typography. While taking into account recent experie ...

1992

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