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The Design And Production Of The Printed Materials For The Goudy International Center For Font Technology And Aesthetics, Mark Benjamin

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The increased use of personal computers in the 1980's has contributed to a sudden awareness of typefaces. This type consciousness has spread not only through the graphic arts industry, but beyond, to people who never before gave much thought to typefaces and their use. Now they are using them and making decisions regarding their use on a daily basis. Graphic artists and designers now have the tools on their desktops that give them the capability to create professional-quality digital type fonts. Even with all the attention and discussion given to the subject of typefaces, there has been no place, either …

Design Of A Hardware Efficient Key Generation Algorithm With A Vhdl Implementation, James A. Goeke

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The design and implementation of a key-generation algorithm will be discussed. The steps in the procedure consist of choosing a baseline algorithm for comparison, designing a new algorithm, testing and comparing the algorithms using C language programs, and then implementing the new algorithm using VHDL. The final result of testing the algorithm implemented in VHDL will be compared to the original results obtained from the C program implementing the new algorithm. C language programs of the chosen algorithms will be developed to verify their similarity and functionality. The results will be used to decide if the new algorithm selected for …

Symbols, Mary Therese Mccann

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Virtual Reality, Education And The Macintosh, Paul Cofrancesco

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The purpose of my thesis is to present Virtual Reality as a tool in aiding Education. I used the Macintosh computer as the driving base of my project, and configured inexpensive commercially available computer peripherals as input devices. I investigated the effectiveness with which virtual worlds can present information, as well as studied the use of low cost software, input devices and drivers currently avail able on the Macintosh Computer. In addition, this thesis describes the strength, weaknesses and concerns involving the use of Virtual Reality in learning and the limitations of the current technology.

Global Housekeepers, Mary Arp

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It all began with a small, clipped image from a 1940' s Good Housekeeping magazine. There she was: a two inch tall housewife, prim in both her apron and hair style. Her arms were extended: one for balance and one with a cloth for cleaning. I took this "cleaning woman" image to Kinko ' s , the 24 -hour copy center where I spend too much time. There, I made successive photocopies and enlargements until I had a stack of grainy, obviously mechanically reproduced "drawings". Back in the studio, with a 4B charcoal pencil and paper, I vigorously drew backgrounds …

The Unified School, Roderick Martinez

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It is the mission of this thesis to explore the portrayal of information as we know it. The graphic design industry of today is undergoing major changes, both good and bad. It is important to unlock the potential of these new opportunities, but more importantly we must not let ourselves forget our roots. This project exemplifies the harnessing of modern technology and the implementation of modern design processes. I believe that I have discovered some new aspects of portraying and organizing information by intensely involving myself in the process of this thesis project. Hence, the poster is transcended to offer …

Unity From Diversity, Mauricio Nacif

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A Study Of The Use Of A Manual In The Training Of Operators Of Harris Pagination Systems, Mark Mulik

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This thesis focuses on the effectiveness of a selfguided training manual for use by beginners of the Harris Page Layout System. The problem was to prove that this manual, titled A Beginner' s Guide to Harris Pagination Systems and written in conjunction with this study, is an effective instructional tool. Two groups of beginning users of the Harris Page Layout System were used for testing the effectiveness of the manual. The members of the control group were taught the system by an instructor, while the members of the experimental group were taught the system by the aforementioned training manual. Both …

The Effect Of Flashing In Reducing The Tonal Range Of A Transparency For Photomechanical Reproduction, Bader N. Al-Hajji

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Photographic processing and lithographic printing reproduction are two different processes. In photography, the transparency reproduces the original scene in continuous tone. Whereas, in lithographic printing, the reproduction is a result of an all-or-nothing process. A transparency may have a tonal range that exceeds the range that can be reproduced in lithographic printing. So tone compression is performed on transparencies that exceed the tonal range for printing. Avoiding tone compression during lithographic production results in considerable savings in cost and time. One of the methods to reduce tonal range is for the photographer to understand the relationship between emulsion flashing and …

The Effects Of Fluctuations In Solid Ink Density On Color Variation For Conventional And Grey Component Replacement Separations When Printing Process Color On Newsprint, Eric Matthew Pawlow

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A color separation technique known as Gray Component Replacement, or GCR has been an option available to high-end drum scanner operators for the past eight years. Recently, GCR has been made available by lower-end color system vendors as well. GCR consists of removing the least predominant process color ink in a unit area, reducing the remaining colored inks by the same amount and replacing the "gray component" of the color with black ink. One of the reported benefits of the GCR technique is that more consistency can be realized during a pressrun. If this is in fact true, the first …

No Way Out, Janice Leigh Johnson

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Monolithic Silicon Opto-Electro-Mechanical Light Modulator, Ching-Horng Wu

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A Fabry-Perot light beam modulator of the reflection-type has been designed with process and performance parameters optimized. This design takes advantage of the economies of surface micromaching using silicon substrates and selected thin films. High performance with a low drive voltage are achieved using electrostatic actuation of a thin polysilicon diaphragm. The diaphragm is a novel corrugated structure which has maximum compliance and maintains planarity during actuation. In addition, the corrugationsuspension used provides an improved linearity of amplitude modulation response as a function of the actuation voltage.

A preliminary version of this device has been fabricated through a contract foundry …

Cross-Disciplinary Use Of Metaphor, Jeff Arbegast

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The initial thesis proposal was grand in scope. I wanted to create a methodology, a process that could assist R.I.T students in approaching problems with a metaphorical mindset. The metaphorical mind would be a mind that could approach a creative problem making rich associations and connections.

Graphic Design Career Information, Danielle Grace Plouffe

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Influence Of Ink Sequence On Color's Hue And Saturation In Four Color Halftone Screen Printing, Aristotelis Platon Bougàs

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The screen printing process has been the least understood and studied versus other imaging methods in the graphic arts industry. As equipment configurations improve and a continuous technological development and need for high quality output persists, this fascinating process becomes increasingly popular in several end-use applications. Such as in packaging, labeling, durable graphic films printing and even short run large format halftone graphics. There is a serious need for further deep scientific analysis of the process and its variables. One of the poorly investigated sides of the four color screen printing is the effect that ink placement has to the …

Trigeminal Neuralgia, Through The Eyes Of The Medical Illustrator, Brian D. Mcdermott

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Business Forms Industry's Response To Edi And Electronic Substitutes, Michael J. Hill

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This project has two primary objectives. Both objectives will be achieved through research of current data and the creation, distribution and analysis of a business forms industry survey. The first objective was to draw attention to the growing demand for electronic substitutes for traditional printed business forms, and educate the business forms industry about the biggest threat and opportunity of these technologies, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). This was accomplished by outlining the technology and processes of EDI and describing the various benefits of EDI over traditional printed business forms systems. Such educational descriptions and analysis were necessary due to the …

The Olympic Sponsorship: A Meeting Planning Perspective, Lisa E. Browning

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This study examines the process associated with implementing a major international meeting/exposition from the corporate perspective. Using the 1992 Summer Olympics as a backdrop for a client V.I. P. program by a major U.S. Optical Corporation, this project tracks the planning, development and implementation of a meeting planning incentive program. Topics examined include: site-selection, budget, ticketing for events, on-site transportation, food & beverage, daily agenda, premiums, international documentation and security. The study provides a comprehensive overview of planning major meetings.

Simulation Of A Morphological Image Processor Using Vhdl - Part Ii: Control Mechanism, Hao Chen

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Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is utilized in this project to model a Morphological Image Processor (MIP) Array. Both behavioral and structural models have been established at the system level, and the simulation results from both models are consistent with each other. The successful implementation of the models accomplishes our original goal to document the MIP with VHDL. It is observed from the project that VHDL is a powerful language. It is flexible since it can be used to model any level of a system independent of the technology.

Simulation Of A Morphological Image Processor Using Vhdl - Part I: Mathematical Components, Wei-Chun Chen

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Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is utilized in this project to model a Morphological Image Processor (MIP) Array. Both behavioral and structural models have been established at the system level, and the simulation results from both models are consistent with each other. The successful implementation of the models accomplishes our original goal to document the MIP with VHDL. It is observed from the project that VHDL is a powerful language. It is flexible since it can be used to model any level of a system independent of the technology.

Computerizing Occupational Safety And Health Information, James Luke

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Various regulations increase the responsibility of employers to retain appropriate safety and health information, for as long as several years. Handling this increasing volume of safety and health information manually is impractical, time consuming and hence, not at all cost effective.

The purpose of this research is to examine the various aspects of computerizing safety and health information, and to evaluate a number of commercially available safety software packages.

This paper initially discusses the impact of OSHA on retaining safety and health information, and the different areas which can benefit from computerization. It also provides guidelines to analyze existing safety …

Modal Control Of Flexible Beam Using Smart Mateirals, Sujata Mallepalle

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In this work, the dynamics and control aspects of a vibrating flexible beam using modal analysis are studied. To damp the vibrations of the system, the vibrations of each mode has to he controlled, which can he done if we know the individual mode shape. and the resonance frequency. These quantities can be derived mathematically or measured experimentally with a spectrum analyzer. Individual modal velocities can be computed by integration of the product of beam velocity and the mode shape, over the interval of beam length. The integration is carried out using numerical methods. The necessary discrete ordinates are obtained …

Protocol Conformance Test Generation Using Circular Uio With Overlapping, Sesharao Patchipala

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The purpose of the protocol conformance testing is to ensure that protocol implementations are consistent with their specifications. After the U-method was introduced, several test methods based on the Unique Input/Output (UI0) sequences which were the main concept in the U-method have been proposed, namely, the RCP-method, MUIO-method, MUIO with overlapping method, B-method, C-method. A good test sequence must be short and have wide fault coverage. By comparing the test sequences generated by the above test methods based on experimental results, reveals that the test sequences by the MUIO with overlapping method are the worst in quality but their lengths …

Reverse Engineering : An Evaluation Of Contact Technology And Application In Manufacturing Systems, Shailesh V. Jadhav

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There are many instances where one-of-a-kind parts, such as prototypes or custom-built parts, need to be reproduced. When a Computer Aided Design (CAD) of an existing part is not available, reverse engineering is involved in recreation of such part. Currently, geometric measurements from the surface of a prototype are extracted manually and sent to a CAD system. It is typically time consuming, tedious, and potentially a source of error. This study outlines a methodology, for the development of a CAD model, rapid prototype, and subsequently manufacturing of the part. The method developed uses a contact technique to extract 2-D or …

Computer Implementation Of Mason's Rule And Software Development Of Stochastic Petri Nets, Xiaoyong Zhao

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A symbolic performance analysis approach for discrete event systems can be formulated based on the integration of Petri nets and Moment Generating Function concepts [1-3]. The key steps in the method include modeling a system with arbitrary stochastic Petri nets (ASPN), generation of state machine Petri nets with transfer functions, derivation of equivalent transfer functions, and symbolic derivation of transfer functions to obtain the performance measures. Since Mason's rule can be used to effectively derive the closed-form transfer function, its computer implementation plays a very important role in automating the above procedure. This thesis develops the computer implementation of Mason's …

A Petri Net Toolkit For Parallel Program Debugging, Potla Kishore Reddy

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An effective debugger must support the language and operating system resource abstractions that are available to the programmer. Earlier debuggers worked at the machine architecture level: they dealt with machine instructions and registers. Current debuggers, designed for single process debugging, permit access to program variables and breakpoints and single-stepping at the level of high-level language statements. Eventhough the current debuggers, are already implemented to be a powerful tool, they still cannot do a job of parallel debugger.

In this thesis, a computer simulation system has been established by Petri Nets execution providing a convenient and friendly interface as it allows …

Simulation Study For The Effect Of Dependencies In Queueing Systems, Yitao Bai

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Few theoretical results have been obtained in the literature for the effects of dependencies between random variables on the performance of queueing systems. This thesis aims at investigating this issue via simulation. Several dependencies are studied in detail, including dependencies between interarrival times, between interarrival time and service time, between service times and dependencies between different stages in networks of queues. We define several classes of dependent random variables and study their correlation coefficients, then we apply them to single and multiple station service systems. Comparisons with the independent case, for which the explicit form solution are available, are made …

Networking High-End Cad Systems Based On Pc/Ms-Dos Platforms, Dagmar Antje Brinkmann

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The concept of today's technology has been dropped. Everything is now either oobsolete or experimental. Yesterday's technology is appealing only because it is tried-and-true and prices are reduced for clearance. Tomorrow's technology is exciting, somewhat expensive and not well tested.

In the field of architecture, where most firms are medium or small, having limited resources, the high cost initially required for a CAD installation was generally impossible to meet not too many years ago.

From spreadsheets and CAD graphics to network file systems and distributed database management, the basic systems and application tools have matured to the point that the …

Timed Petri Net Simulation Of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Yan Chen

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Standard Petri nets have been used to model and analyze Flexible Manufacturing Systems. The timed Petri net, which can incorporate the time delay associated with manufacturing events, provides additional information about real time behavior of practical systems. The Timed Petri Net Simulation Tool, a highly interactive graphical tool, is applied to simulate the modeled flexible manufacturing systems. Timed Petri net models are experimented with. Machine utilization data and throughput are obtained. Analysis of the results shows that the system performance can be optimized by choosing proper parameters.

A Comparison Of Integration Architectures, Amar Mahidadia

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This paper presents GenSIF, a Generic Systems Integration Framework. GenSIF features a pre-planned development process on a domain-wide basis and facilitates system integration and project coordination for very large, complex and distributed systems. Domain analysis, integration architecture design and infrastructure design are identified as the three main components of GenSIF. In the next step we map Beilcore's OSCA interoperability architecture, ANSA, IBM's SAA and Bull's DCM into GenSIF. Using the GenSIF concepts we compare each of these architectures.

GenSIF serves as a general framework to evaluate and position specific architecture. The OSCA architecture is used to discuss the impact of …