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Design And Realization Of Optimization System For Rice Type, Weilong Ding, Lifeng Xu, Wei Yang, Gao Nan Aug 2020

Design And Realization Of Optimization System For Rice Type, Weilong Ding, Lifeng Xu, Wei Yang, Gao Nan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: It is widely accepted that in traditional crop ideotype breeding, field trials are time-consuming, yet lacking appropriate ways to evaluate the target morphology to be optimal. In order to obtain ideal crop plant type quickly and automatically, meanwhile to reduce the side effects caused by manual operations in the processes of plant type design, e.g. the growing of labor costs and uncertainty of the outcome, a method based on genetic algorithms (GAs) and functional-structural plant model (FSPM) was proposed in this study to optimize plant type of virtual rice by dynamically adjusting phenotypical traits of rice plants. Based on …

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3d Reconstruction Of Weak Texture Image Based On Tensor Voting And Dense Map Method, Mingwei Chen, Yang Yang Aug 2020

3d Reconstruction Of Weak Texture Image Based On Tensor Voting And Dense Map Method, Mingwei Chen, Yang Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Image based 3D reconstruction method can't effectively detect and match feature points and can't robustly expand 3D point cloud in weak texture image region, due to the fact that weak texture has single color and local reflection phenomenon. It is possible to produce model hole and a large number of 3D noise points, and affect the accuracy and integrity of 3D reconstruction. Slack variables constraint was used to filter mismatch features optimizing the camera matrix, in the dense point cloud expansion stage by using tensor voting principle to filter noise 3d point which is inconsistent with three-dimensional point's normal …

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Research Of Virtual Reality Technology In The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders And Autism, Cuijuan Liu, Liu Zhen, Tingting Liu, Lu Tao, Fang Hao, Liangping Liu Aug 2020

Research Of Virtual Reality Technology In The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders And Autism, Cuijuan Liu, Liu Zhen, Tingting Liu, Lu Tao, Fang Hao, Liangping Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The research of virtual reality technology in the adjuvant treatment of mental diseases has caused wide concern. Anxiety disorders and autism are two major mental diseases in today's society, which has been plagued by both adults and children. Conducting anxiety and autism's rehabilitation has important practical significance. The research of virtual reality technology application in anxiety disorders and autism was reviewed, emotion regulation in the adjuvant treatment of mental diseases was discussed, emotion agents and emotion models were summarized, a technical roadmap of emotion adjuvant treatment for mental diseases was proposed, the architecture of emotion agent was constructed, and …

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Development And Performance Assessment Of An Integrated Vermifiltration Based Treatment System For The Treatment Of Feedlot Runoff, Rajneesh Singh, Matteo D'Alessio, Yulie Meneses, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Brian Woodbury, Chittaranjan Ray Aug 2020

Development And Performance Assessment Of An Integrated Vermifiltration Based Treatment System For The Treatment Of Feedlot Runoff, Rajneesh Singh, Matteo D'Alessio, Yulie Meneses, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Brian Woodbury, Chittaranjan Ray

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to treat feedlot runoff by developing an ecologically sustainable, affordable, and resilient treatment system having a relatively long life span. Three horizontal flow soil biofilters were utilized in this study: 1) without earthworms and plants (Biofilter (BF)), 2) with earthworms only (Vermifilter (VF)), and 3) with earthworms and plants (Macrophyte Assisted Vermifilter (MAVF)). The experiments were conducted with a hydraulic retention time of four days using Lumbricus terestrris earthworms and Carex frankii wetland plants. The average COD removal from the BF, VF, and MAVF were 23.2–30.4%, 61.4–69.1%, and 68.3–78.1%, respectively. Average TN removal efficiencies …

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Potential Energy Generation From Agricultural Residue In Indonesia, Adrian Rizqi Irhamna Aug 2020

Potential Energy Generation From Agricultural Residue In Indonesia, Adrian Rizqi Irhamna

International Programs

Indonesia has great potential of biomass sources from their agricultural residue, which can potentially be used for alternative energy generation. This preliminary research explores the most suitable technology for energy generation from agricultural residue and its challenge for application in Indonesia. The study showed that biomass utilization via the direct combustion process is recommended for energy generation. It is also reported that the pretreatment process of drying and washing, are required to increase the fuel quality and plant efficiency.

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Applying Renewable Energies Against Climate Change: Solar Photovoltaic (Pv) Energy, Juan Jose Estribi Aug 2020

Applying Renewable Energies Against Climate Change: Solar Photovoltaic (Pv) Energy, Juan Jose Estribi

International Programs

In recent years, more efforts towards fighting climate change have been done. As a direct response, research and technology have offered several insights regarding the specific causes, effects, and even possible solutions for resolving this global issue. Among these solutions, renewable energies and their potential contributions as clean energy sources can be assessed as feasible options for the energy transformation through the decarbonization process of the energy industry. This poster is mainly focused on solar photovoltaic (PV) energy and its great potential as a renewable energy by making a brief assessment of some important aspects such as resource availability, its …

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How Can 5g Make Our Lives Better?, Firas Slewa Dawod Aug 2020

How Can 5g Make Our Lives Better?, Firas Slewa Dawod

International Programs

Our lives will be significantly improved with the advent of the new cellular wireless technology due to all its new features and applications. This Poster discusses the main features and application of 5G technology and its positive impact on society, in particular facilitating interactive and smart communities.

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Ensuring A Safety Workplace By The Automation Of The Ammonia Cooling System, Luis Felipe Cordoba Aug 2020

Ensuring A Safety Workplace By The Automation Of The Ammonia Cooling System, Luis Felipe Cordoba

International Programs

Ammonia presents high efficiency in freezing food products for preserving them for exportation; however, the use of this refrigerant implies a high risk to human life because it presents high concentrations of toxic gases that can produce deadly consequences to human beings. Smart relays present a flexible manner to automate industrial process; therefore, this poster aims to replace the manual and inefficient manner of controlling ammonia cooling system by using a smart relay that can control the levels of this refrigerant in the precooler and cooler section; resulting in considerable decrease workers’ in exposure to this refrigerant.

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The Influence Of Surface Types Towards Run-Off Water In Urban Park, Febby Andini Aug 2020

The Influence Of Surface Types Towards Run-Off Water In Urban Park, Febby Andini

International Programs

Pavements in Alun Kapuas Park constribute 63 of run off water over the capacity of the soil to infiltrate. This water will potentially causes the flooding and puddling issues.

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What Are The Advantages Of Replacing Fossil Fuels With Biofuels?, Amr Shaalan Aug 2020

What Are The Advantages Of Replacing Fossil Fuels With Biofuels?, Amr Shaalan

International Programs

Fossil fuels’ negative impact on the environment is leading many people to worry In addition to that, fossil fuels are running out as every day goes by. Thus, finding a renewable and environmentally friendly source of energy has now become a necessity. Biofuels offer clean energy that comes with numerous economic and environmental benefits. Furthermore, biofuels can absorb more carbon from the air than they would produce when burnt. Giving a chance to clear the air from fossil fuel’s carbon.

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Future Trends In Construction Waste Management, Zaur Zeynalov Aug 2020

Future Trends In Construction Waste Management, Zaur Zeynalov

International Programs

The problem of construction waste has been with us since the beginning of construction history. As the world's population continues to grow, construction waste grows with it and there is a pressing need to address how we deal with the construction waste problem As a result, the whole world is facing the problem of "construction waste management" today. This poster describes current challenges managing construction waste and offers possible solutions to minimize/mitigate/ameliorate its (negative) effects on the environment.

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Hail Detection Using Dual Polarization Weather Radar, Alfonso Ladino Rincon Aug 2020

Hail Detection Using Dual Polarization Weather Radar, Alfonso Ladino Rincon

International Programs

This poster highlights how active remote sensors such as weather radar are completely useful for hail detection given its feature and the information they produce. Hail detection is already well studied by the atmospheric scientific community and dual polarimetric variables values for hail signature are presented according to those advances. Then, a supervised classification technique is showed to illustrated how machine learning can be integrated to radar information for automatic hail detection. However, this fuzzy logic algorithm has the capability to distinguish between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes. This automatic information might help forecasters from National Weather Services – NWS to …

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Indonesian Library User Behaviour During Covid 19 Pandemic On Digital Library Platform, Irhamni Aug 2020

Indonesian Library User Behaviour During Covid 19 Pandemic On Digital Library Platform, Irhamni

International Programs

COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed library user behavior, workplaces, and some public areas including in the library. During the COVID 19 pandemics, the digital library with a mobile app like ipusnas has facilitated to accessing library resources. The ipusnas has increased people's accessibility to library materials. This research focuses on the use of the digital library has a significant impact on library users behavior; it can influence how they read, access the library, and their interaction with the library resources.

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Advanced Solid-State Lithium Batteries For Electric Vehicles, Yelsin Mendez Camacho Aug 2020

Advanced Solid-State Lithium Batteries For Electric Vehicles, Yelsin Mendez Camacho

International Programs

Solid-state lithium batteries (SSLBs) may have the potential to safe and long-distance driving in electric-vehicles (EV). […] However, manufacturing processes and new materials need to be developed to make these batteries commercially available.

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Improving Energy Efficiency In Residential Houses In Kosovo, Fatlum Rexhepi Aug 2020

Improving Energy Efficiency In Residential Houses In Kosovo, Fatlum Rexhepi

International Programs

Buildings with poor insulation and infiltration in doors, windows, and other openings have very high heating and cooling demands. Due to lack of maintenance, building materials, and standard they are whopping consumers. The necessity to save energy is enormous, especially with newly environmental constrains. Moreover, this would not only save our natural resources, but it would cut large sums that households spend on electricity, gas, or coal. Thermodynamic calculation of heat gain and loss gave us a lucid picture of benefits respecting nearly zero energy buildings standards while comparing same building prior and after improving its envelope. The consumption after …

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Recent Advances In Hydrothermal Carbonisation: From Tailored Carbon Materials And Biochemicals To Applications And Bioenergy, Sabina A. Nicolae, Heather Au, Pierpaolo Modugno, Hui Luo, Anthony E. Szego, Mo Qiao, Liang Li, Wang Yin, Hero J. Heeres, Nicole Berge, Maria Magdalena Titirici Aug 2020

Recent Advances In Hydrothermal Carbonisation: From Tailored Carbon Materials And Biochemicals To Applications And Bioenergy, Sabina A. Nicolae, Heather Au, Pierpaolo Modugno, Hui Luo, Anthony E. Szego, Mo Qiao, Liang Li, Wang Yin, Hero J. Heeres, Nicole Berge, Maria Magdalena Titirici

Faculty Publications

Introduced in the literature in 1913 by Bergius, who at the time was studying biomass coalification, hydrothermal carbonisation, as many other technologies based on renewables, was forgotten during the "industrial revolution". It was rediscovered back in 2005, on the one hand, to follow the trend set by Bergius of biomass to coal conversion for decentralised energy generation, and on the other hand as a novel green method to prepare advanced carbon materials and chemicals from biomass in water, at mild temperature, for energy storage and conversion and environmental protection. In this review, we will present an overview on the latest …

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The Applications Of Auxetic Material, Faizal Arifurrahman Aug 2020

The Applications Of Auxetic Material, Faizal Arifurrahman

International Programs

To date, increasing structural efficiency has become a main objective in material science and engineering. One focus is an auxetic material with a unique characteristic obtained by fabricating cellular forms. With its higher strength-to-weight ratio, auxetic is becoming popular in the real-world to produce products that are light but more durable. This study examines potential application of auxetic compared to that of conventional material.

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Morphodynamics Of Transgressive Coastal Systems: Modeling Allogenic And Autogenic Response To Sea Level Rise, Storms, And Changes In Sediment Supply, Kevin C. Hanegan Aug 2020

Morphodynamics Of Transgressive Coastal Systems: Modeling Allogenic And Autogenic Response To Sea Level Rise, Storms, And Changes In Sediment Supply, Kevin C. Hanegan

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Barrier islands are widespread and typically enclose landward basins connected to the ocean through tidal inlets. Low energy in the basin enables fine sediment accumulation and salt marsh formation. Sea Level Rise (SLR) causes loss of marshes due to their low elevations and inundation sensitivity. Both long-term trends in sediment supply due to SLR and episodic transfers of sediment due to storms are important to the sustainability of marshes and tidal basins. The trajectory of deltas, including the Mississippi River Delta (MRD), are also impacted by sediment supply. The redistribution of sediments (autogenic reorganization) within transgressive systems will determine their …

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Visible-Light-Active Disinfection Of Surface Water Coliform Using Silver/Titanium Dioxide/Silver Bromide(Ag/Tio2/Agbr) As Photocatalyst, Ashraya Upadhyaya Aug 2020

Visible-Light-Active Disinfection Of Surface Water Coliform Using Silver/Titanium Dioxide/Silver Bromide(Ag/Tio2/Agbr) As Photocatalyst, Ashraya Upadhyaya

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

As human population becomes diverse, the need for sustainable, inexpensive, scalable, and decentralized water treatment technologies to supplement or replace conventional treatment methods are important, especially to satisfy the need of small, rural communities for safe drinking water. These challenges can be somewhat met with the use of semiconductor photocatalysis, especially if the process is driven by visible light energy. Visible-light-active (VLA) photocatalysis can be effectively applied in disinfection of drinking water. In comparison to traditional, energy-intensive, physical and chemical disinfection methods, VLA photocatalysis is capable of providing high disinfection efficiency with the use of cheaper energy, no harmful by-products, …

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Experimental Investigation Into The Boundary Layer Of A Robotic Anguilliform Propulsor, Jonathan R. Eastridge Aug 2020

Experimental Investigation Into The Boundary Layer Of A Robotic Anguilliform Propulsor, Jonathan R. Eastridge

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Boundary layer information local to three longitudinal positions has been characterized for a 130 cm long biomimetic self-propulsor known as NEELBOT-1.1 that swims with undulatory anguilliform-like motions, via analysis of stereo particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements for key moments in the undulation cycle and for numerous combinations of swimming conditions and motion parameters, ideal and non-ideal. No obvious turbulent flow structures or indications of boundary layer separation were observed at nonzero advance speeds, and skin friction coefficients were subsequently estimated for magnitude relative to the dynamic pressure associated with operation at the design swimming speed of Uo = 0.25 …

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Research Of Diffusion-Based Molecular Oscillation And Synchronization In Nanonetworks, Feiyan Li, Lin Lin, Shiwei Ma Aug 2020

Research Of Diffusion-Based Molecular Oscillation And Synchronization In Nanonetworks, Feiyan Li, Lin Lin, Shiwei Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Nanonetworks, the interconnection among nanomachines at nanoscale, is a novel kind of communication and information sharing interdisciplinary technology, and have huge potential prospects in the application of biomedical engineering, environmental monitoring, industrial production and military. Nanomachine is considered to be the basic functional unit, and clock period caused by oscillators is a prerequisite for nanomachines to work. A mathematical model was developed to describe the molecular diffusion characteristics giving the oscillation period expression by theoretical deviation. Research on oscillation and synchronization in nanonetworks is very limited so far, so the study is of great significance to the development and …

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Graphic Method To Simulate Planar Arrays Pattern, Shuchun Zhang, Yongbin Qiu, Jiang Wei, Wei Xin Aug 2020

Graphic Method To Simulate Planar Arrays Pattern, Shuchun Zhang, Yongbin Qiu, Jiang Wei, Wei Xin

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Calculating planar arrays pattern is time-consuming in flight simulation whose frame synchronization time is within tens of milliseconds and this would cause removing frames. To resolve this problem, a graphic simulation method was presented to simulate planar arrays' pattern. Based on analyzing ideal patterns' graphic characteristics, a kernel function was constructed whose graphics could reflect all those pattern's characteristics. Then this kernel's graphics being used as a section plane were rotated in the spatial coordinates to match the ideal pattern. The simulation results show that this method can be rapidly calculated and the simulated pattern is highly true to …

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Simulation Of Ships On Sea Surface, Guijie Diao, Xiaojian Xu, Ni Hong, Junjie Lu Aug 2020

Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Simulation Of Ships On Sea Surface, Guijie Diao, Xiaojian Xu, Ni Hong, Junjie Lu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal simulation method for ship targets on sea surface was proposed and the SAR signature model was established. The ship six degrees freedom motion model, the sea surface complex reflection coefficient model and the target electromagnetic scattering model were introduced. Based on the high frequency electromagnetic scattering calculation method and multi-path electromagnetic scattering, the electromagnetic coupling scattering and the time-varying characteristics were simulated. By comparing and analyzing the imaging results of the simulated SAR signal in different states, the physical scattering characteristics of ship targets on sea surface was realistically reflected, at the same …

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Discrete-Event Simulation-Engine Technology Based On Mailbox-Mechanism In C4Isr System, Wendi Cheng, Fengxin Sun, Chu Wei Aug 2020

Discrete-Event Simulation-Engine Technology Based On Mailbox-Mechanism In C4Isr System, Wendi Cheng, Fengxin Sun, Chu Wei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For the design of discrete event simulation engine about combat simulation platform tools in C4ISR System, discrete events were divided into several types according to the C4ISR System's functional components and operational deduction process. The advantage of centralized management and convenient access was made use of by the mechanism of sending and receiving emails in mailbox to support the circulation of discrete events. Besides, the fixed-step driven and event-driven discrete event engine strategies were compared and analyzed. The result shows that, discrete event-driven clock algorithm, which can greatly reduce the consumed machine-time in simulation, is more applicable at …

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Semi-Physical Simulation System Research For Marine Fuel Oil Purifier, Zhang Ning, Zhipeng Shen, Jizhong Liu, Haiwei Wang Aug 2020

Semi-Physical Simulation System Research For Marine Fuel Oil Purifier, Zhang Ning, Zhipeng Shen, Jizhong Liu, Haiwei Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Practical training in ship fuel oil purifier systems have lots of limitations including poor stability, development difficulties and high maintenance cost. A semi-physical simulation system for marine fuel oil purifier was proposed. According to the real ship control box, a fuel oil purifier control box was designed. A process simulation system was developed to simulate the fuel oil tube and purifier function, which could achieve the working process of purifier system and the phenomenon of fault alarm. The simulation system can reappear the working process of the oil purifier and simulate the fault conditions to improve the …

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Mufti-Model Soft Modeling Based On Clustering In Evaporation Process, Peng Chen, Xiaoshan Qian Aug 2020

Mufti-Model Soft Modeling Based On Clustering In Evaporation Process, Peng Chen, Xiaoshan Qian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the idea approach based on multi-model with a stronger robustness and precision, combining with strong coupling and the highly nonlinear characteristics in multi-effect evaporation process, a soft sensor modeling method of fuzzy kernel clustering was proposed based on differential evolution and multi-squares support vector machines. The method made clustering samples under different conditions by use of DE-KFCM, each sub-models were constructed using LSSVM using fuzzy clustering algorithm to cluster the input data under different conditions, and finally get the system output by weighting. Taking alumina evaporation process as an example, for the soft sensor modeling of export …

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Research On Prediction Method Of Army Equipment Support Requirement Based On Operation Simulation Case- Reasoning, Yaxin Tan, Fan Rui, Xiao Dong Aug 2020

Research On Prediction Method Of Army Equipment Support Requirement Based On Operation Simulation Case- Reasoning, Yaxin Tan, Fan Rui, Xiao Dong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the question of army equipment support requirement prediction, a new mechanism based on simulation case-based reasoning was proposed. The method was given how to describe the simulation case based on characteristic vector, and put forward the constriction of simulation case which contains primary case and accessory case, and two-steps reasoning mechanism using the conception of similarity was researched. Then, some algorithms of similarity between cases were improved and the general flow was expounded. The operation simulation case library was built applying in the requirement prediction of army equipment support. The result of reasoning proves the effectivity and …

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Design And Implementation Of Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Dynamic Routing Protocol, Xiaohu Liu, Yuchen Zhang, Qingpo Fang, Leigang Sun Aug 2020

Design And Implementation Of Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Dynamic Routing Protocol, Xiaohu Liu, Yuchen Zhang, Qingpo Fang, Leigang Sun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Against the problem of dynamic routing in network Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, on the basis of analysis of network HITL simulation principle, a dynamic routing protocol implementation scheme based on OMNeT++ was proposed. A method of routing message transform and a algorithm of time slice synchronize was proposed, overcoming the problem of routing message transform and system real-time. At the same time, using virtual IP technology for multi-host configuration, and OSPF dynamic routing protocol, the Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation Dynamic Routing Protocol based on OMNeT++ was realized. The dynamic routing protocol with multi scenarios was verified and tested.

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Order-Independent Image Compositing In Heterogeneous Environments, Liu Ning, Dengming Zhu, Zhaoqi Wang, Shi Min Aug 2020

Order-Independent Image Compositing In Heterogeneous Environments, Liu Ning, Dengming Zhu, Zhaoqi Wang, Shi Min

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Conventional image compositing algorithms are designed for homogeneous environments. These algorithms do not take heterogeneity into account and do not make use of the properties of an order-independent compositing operator. As for order-independent image compositing problems in a heterogeneous environment, these algorithms usually can not make full use of the resources. An order-independent image compositing algorithm in heterogeneous environments was proposed, which was able to distribute the workload according to computing and networking characteristics, and managed to optimize compositing scheme by utilizing the properties of order-independent operator. A comprehensive evaluation on the ns-3 network simulator was conducted. Experiment results …

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Chinese Shadow Play Simulation Based On Volume Visualization, Shenghua Wang, Tan Jian Aug 2020

Chinese Shadow Play Simulation Based On Volume Visualization, Shenghua Wang, Tan Jian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Protection and preservation of the scene of shadow play is an urgent mission for the Chinese shadow play sustainable development. So far the visual effect is inadequate since shadow plays are always considered as two-dimensional images moving on visualization purpose, which drags down reproduction of the scene. Therefore, intact and lifelike reproduction of 3-D visual information of shadow play is the only task in the study. After an analysis of vision generation process of shadow play, a theoretical model was proposed including screen, puppets and light source, and a corresponding GPU volume rendering method for the play visualization was …

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