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Summary: Three ways to get the most from your board service. |
The addition of one more thing to your workload may not appeal, but volunteering to serve on a board of directors can be worthwhile—if you're strategic. For Fritzi Woods, president and CEO of the Women's Foodservice Forum and a mother of five, the key is creating a valuable experience for herself and the board.
A veteran of multiple nonprofit, corporate, and academic boards and advisory groups, she urges women in particular to volunteer for governing slots. "I've found my experience on volunteer boards has been a catalyst for my opportunities to be on paying boards," Woods says.
She lists four essentials that a professional should bring to any board term: passion, skill, time, and the ability to advocate. It's hard work, Woods says, "but I've gotten more from the give-back in [terms of] relationships, learning, hearing different points of view, understanding board dynamics, and especially learning how to navigate a group of people to get focused on the most important issues."
Here are her tips for how to get the most from any board role and give your best to the organization you're serving:
- Choose a board that needs your unique skills and perspective. Identify where you think you can contribute value. "You have to understand the strategy of the organization because that way you know how to plug in," Woods says.
- Be passionate about the mission, so you can advocate authentically on its behalf.
- Pass it forward. If you're short on resources or the position is misaligned with your current goals, "find somebody else who does have the skill set the organization's looking for, which you should have in your network, and then invite them into your circle," she says. "It's not that women are short of talent; we're short of access."
Woods notes that once access opens, senior volunteer options start to abound: "You're doing yourself a disservice to not take the opportunity to serve on nonprofit boards, because you get great opportunities to build relationships and, more importantly, you get the [chance] to do some great work."
Kristin Clarke is a business journalist and writer for ASAE. Email: email@example.com
Woods will lead a Game Changer session at ASAE's 2012 Annual Meeting & Expo in Dallas, August 11-14.
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In Mozambique a war veteran sits by the side of a gravel road, begging for food after he lost both his legs due to a landmine.
According to Handicap International, an estimated 20 people step on landmines every month in Mozambique. Sixty percent of them die because they lack access to health services.
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Legacies of War today announced that the U.S. will be spending $12 million in fiscal year 2014 for unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance, victim assistance and risk education in Laos. The funding was included in the recent omnibus spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. The amount represents the largest annual spending by the U.S. to support various groups in Laos working to improve clearance efficiency, lower casualty rates and support current victims.
Legacies of War, a Washington-based nonprofit, has worked hard to focus the attention of the U.S. on the problem of UXO in Laos. "We are pleased to see that the U.S. government is stepping up to meet its responsibility to ensure that the unexploded bombs leftover from the Vietnam War era are finally cleared. We are grateful for the ongoing commitment of the policy makers in Washington and our partners in Laos who are dedicated to solving this four-decade old problem," said Brett Dakin, Chair of the Board of Legacies of War.
From 1964 to 1973, Laos was involved in the Indochina conflict, and was subjected to the heaviest bombing campaign in history with approximately two million tons of ordnance dropped on the country. Of the 270 million cluster bombs dropped, about thirty-percent never exploded, leaving an estimated 80 million bomblets littering 14 of the 17 provinces in Laos.
Harrisonburg, VA (10/10/2013) – The Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR) at James Madison University (JMU) will travel to Vietnam in 2014 to support its local partner, The Association for the Empowerment of People with Disabilities (AEPD), and launch a public-awareness campaign promoting the rights of people with disabilities (PWDs). The campaign looks to increase awareness among the general public and among government officials of the rights legally afforded to PWDs in Vietnam.
The Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded CISR a $247,500 grant to conduct and support a capacity-building project for AEPD, which is one of Vietnam's leading organizations promoting economic and social empowerment for PWDs. A three-person CISR project team will travel to Vietnam to conduct the initial trainings in Quang Binh province and Hanoi, and oversee the project's monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the overall campaign is carried out successfully
This project is a public-advocacy campaign striving toward an inclusive and barrier-free Vietnamese society where PWDs can fulfill their potential, enjoy equal opportunities and continue to productively contribute to their communities.
CISR previously worked on projects in Vietnam, including mine-risk education in Quang Tri province (1999–2000) and victim-assistance work by staff members during previous employment with Survivor Corps. In 2012, CISR conducted a peer-support training workshop in conjunction with AEPD in Vietnam for 41 PWDs, including landmine/unexploded-ordnance victims and people affected by Agent Orange.
In recent years the Vietnamese government passed a series of laws to protect PWD rights. The broadest and most recent is the National Disability Law, enacted in 2010.The CISR education and public-awareness campaign will help AEPD empower communities and local governments to observe the law.
AEPD was born out of the international humanitarian organization Survivor Corps/Landmine Survivors Network, which launched its Vietnam program in 2003 and was co-founded by CISR Director Ken Rutherford.
CISR helps communities affected by conflict and trauma through innovative research, training, information exchange and direct services. CISR was founded at JMU in 1996 as the Mine Action Information Center, becoming CISR in 2008. Since its founding, CISR has worked worldwide to help communities build peaceful and prosperous futures free from the repercussions of war and disaster.
Since independence in 1962, Burundi has been plagued by ethnic tensions between the dominant Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority.1 The most recent eruption of violence in 1993 led to the deaths of an estimated 300,000 people. A long and painful transition to peace thereafter culminated in the first democratic elections in 2005, and the election of Pierre Nkurunziza as President. At the end of 2006 he signed a ceasefire with the rebel FNL and, in 2009, civil war was officially declared to be ended. Nonetheless, especially since the 2010 elections, political tensions have remained high between the CNDD, which controls the government, and opposition parties.
Founded in 2005 in Bujumbura, CEDAC is a local and apolitical non-profit organisation.2 Its founding president, Eric Niragira, was 14 years old in 1993: he lived through the conflict, was forced to support the rebellion and participated in military and political activities. When he returned to school in 1996, he found it a painful experience:
'On a daily basis, the army would gather fellow Tutsi students to participate in the killing of civilians who lived in the villages surrounding our lycee. When these students would return, the Hutu students were forced to wash their clothing and knives that were full of blood. We did this out of fear of being killed if we refused.'3
Actor Jonathan Goldsmith, best known for his portrayal of Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" has joined Clear Path International to raise awareness of their work with landmine and bomb accident survivors. PHOTO: Michael Helms.
Clear Path International (CPI), a U.S.-based non-profit organization that assists civilian landmine and bomb accident survivors in five countries, including every region of Vietnam and every province in Afghanistan, announced today that actor Jonathan Goldsmith has joined them in their efforts. Goldsmith, best known as the actor who portrays Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" in their award-winning advertising campaign, will help Clear Path raise awareness of the need and urgency of their mission.
"Jonathan's work is known worldwide and his assistance to bring the plight of civilian victims of war into the national conversation is urgently needed," said James Hathaway, Cofounder and Director of Communications for CPI. "Plus he's a lot of fun to have around. Wherever you go, everyone loves Jonathan."
More photos from CISR Director Ken Rutherford's Vietnam trip as part of CISR's conflict survivor survey mission to adapt information management system along the lines of the Convention on the Rights and Dignity of People with Disabilities.
Manassas, VA, April 15, 2013 – In the wake of the explosions at the Boston Marathon, the Amputee Coalition reached out to the leaders of the New England Amputee Association to help quickly get limb loss materials to the Boston hospitals that are treating the injured. The New England Amputee Association supports amputees in Boston and the surrounding region.
"Our hearts go out to the family and friends of those killed or injured in the Boston Marathon explosions," said Kendra Calhoun, president & CEO of the Amputee Coalition. "Peer support is critical to patients who undergo limb loss. It is also important that these individuals and their families have the resources needed to help them on their journey of recovery and readjustment."
Manixia Thor (left) and a member of her all women's bomb clearance team head into the field to clear unexploded ordnance in the Lao countryside. Manixia will be on a speakers tour for the month of April to raise awareness of the urgent need in Laos for funding of bomb clearance and survivor assistance efforts.
As a bomb clearance technician and the leader of an all-women's bomb clearance team in Laos, Manixia Thor has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Unexploded ordnance removal is perilous and the days are long, but she knows that her work clearing bombs will make Laos safer for her two-year-old son and for future generations.
For nearly 10 years, millions of bombs rained down on the tiny country of Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. The bombings ended 40 years ago this year, but more than 20,000 Laotians have been killed or injured by decades-old ordnance that litter the otherwise beautiful landscape.
With support from the U.S. Department of State, Manixia and Thoummy Silamphan, a Laotian bomb accident survivor and victim assistance advocate, will be touring the United States on a speakers tour with the U.S.-based group LEGACIES OF WAR to raise awareness about the unexploded ordnance issue in Laos and the urgent need for further funding of clearance and survivor assistance efforts.
Landmine victim and anti-mine campaigner Chen Chang Li-yu on Saturday shows photographs of herself as a teenager in Kinmen County. Photo: CNA
Every year, more than 26,000 people — mostly civilians — die or are injured by landmines buried around the world. Two Taiwanese victims of landmines — Lee Hsi-sheng (李錫勝) and Chen Chang Li-yu (陳張麗玉) — have spent the better part of their lives dedicated to the anti-landmine campaign.
Lee, 74, said he was 19 when he stepped on a mine and lost his left leg.
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For one reason or another a lot of fans dislike Broussard and think he makes stuff up, but personally I believe what he's saying. Ainge has been shopping Rondo for YEARS. For the "right deal" he'd 100% trade him. Now Ainge saying he's not shopping Rondo doesn't really mean much as every GM always denies shopping their stars. Maybe Ainge has decided not to shop Rondo this deadline (probably because due to the ACL tear he could only get 50 cents on the dollar), but don't just dismiss the possibility because Ainge says so.
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Thankyou for your well wishes Halifax, they are very much appreciated. I also teared up reading your post, and cant imagine going through what you did. I am very sorry for you losses. In your situation, it seems like a no brainer to get those first trimester tests
I am very grateful each time i pass a new milestone in this pregnancy. I just did well in my glucose tolerance test yay!
I am also aware that issues with the baby havent been ruled out definitively, so i have researched it a bit. But i share the view with amommyttc that this baby is a miracle no matter what. I really appreciate hearing your views on that subject amommyttc, and am so sorry for your loss.
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Assuming you want to rotate vectors around the origin of your coordinate system. (If you want to rotate around some other point, subtract its coordinates from the point you are rotating, do the rotation, and then add back what you subtracted.) In 3-D, you need not only an angle, but also an axis. (In higher dimensions it gets much worse, very quickly.) Actually, you need 3 independent numbers, and these come in a variety of flavors. The flavor I recommend is unit quaternions: 4 numbers that square and add up to +1. You can write these as [(x,y,z),w], with 4 real numbers, or [v,w], with v, a 3-D vector pointing along the axis. The concept of an axis is unique to 3-D. It is a line through the origin containing all the points which do not move during the rotation. So we know if we are turning forwards or back, we use a vector pointing out along the line. Suppose you want to use unit vector u as your axis, and rotate by 2t degrees. (Yes, that's twice t.) Make a quaternion [u sin t, cos t]. You can use the quaternion -- call it q -- directly on a vector v with quaternion multiplication, q v q^-1, or just convert the quaternion to a 3x3 matrix M. If the components of q are {(x,y,z),w], then you want the matrix
M = {{1-2(yy+zz), 2(xy-wz), 2(xz+wy)}, { 2(xy+wz),1-2(xx+zz), 2(yz-wx)}, { 2(xz-wy), 2(yz+wx),1-2(xx+yy)}}.
Rotations, translations, and much more are explained in all basic computer graphics texts. Quaternions are covered briefly in [Foley], and more extensively in several Graphics Gems, and the SIGGRAPH 85 proceedings.
/* The following routine converts an angle and a unit axis vector * to a matrix, returning the corresponding unit quaternion at no * extra cost. It is written in such a way as to allow both fixed * point and floating point versions to be created by appropriate * definitions of FPOINT, ANGLE, VECTOR, QUAT, MATRIX, MUL, HALF, * TWICE, COS, SIN, ONE, and ZERO. * The following is an example of floating point definitions. #define FPOINT double #define ANGLE FPOINT #define VECTOR QUAT typedef struct {FPOINT x,y,z,w;} QUAT; enum Indices {X,Y,Z,W}; typedef FPOINT MATRIX[4][4]; #define MUL(a,b) ((a)*(b)) #define HALF(a) ((a)*0.5) #define TWICE(a) ((a)*2.0) #define COS cos #define SIN sin #define ONE 1.0 #define ZERO 0.0 */ QUAT MatrixFromAxisAngle(VECTOR axis, ANGLE theta, MATRIX m) { QUAT q; ANGLE halfTheta = HALF(theta); FPOINT cosHalfTheta = COS(halfTheta); FPOINT sinHalfTheta = SIN(halfTheta); FPOINT xs, ys, zs, wx, wy, wz, xx, xy, xz, yy, yz, zz; q.x = MUL(axis.x,sinHalfTheta); q.y = MUL(axis.y,sinHalfTheta); q.z = MUL(axis.z,sinHalfTheta); q.w = cosHalfTheta; xs = TWICE(q.x); ys = TWICE(q.y); zs = TWICE(q.z); wx = MUL(q.w,xs); wy = MUL(q.w,ys); wz = MUL(q.w,zs); xx = MUL(q.x,xs); xy = MUL(q.x,ys); xz = MUL(q.x,zs); yy = MUL(q.y,ys); yz = MUL(q.y,zs); zz = MUL(q.z,zs); m[X][X] = ONE - (yy + zz); m[X][Y] = xy - wz; m[X][Z] = xz + wy; m[Y][X] = xy + wz; m[Y][Y] = ONE - (xx + zz); m[Y][Z] = yz - wx; m[Z][X] = xz - wy; m[Z][Y] = yz + wx; m[Z][Z] = ONE - (xx + yy); /* Fill in remainder of 4x4 homogeneous transform matrix. */ m[W][X] = m[W][Y] = m[W][Z] = m[X][W] = m[Y][W] = m[Z][W] = ZERO; m[W][W] = ONE; return (q); } /* The routine just given, MatrixFromAxisAngle, performs rotation about * an axis passing through the origin, so only a unit vector was needed * in addition to the angle. To rotate about an axis not containing the * origin, a point on the axis is also needed, as in the following. For * mathematical purity, the type POINT is used, but may be defined as: #define POINT VECTOR */ QUAT MatrixFromAnyAxisAngle(POINT o, VECTOR axis, ANGLE theta, MATRIX m) { QUAT q; q = MatrixFromAxisAngle(axis,theta,m); m[X][W] = o.x-(MUL(m[X][X],o.x)+MUL(m[X][Y],o.y)+MUL(m[X][Z],o.z)); m[Y][W] = o.y-(MUL(m[Y][X],o.x)+MUL(m[Y][Y],o.y)+MUL(m[Y][Z],o.z)); m[Z][W] = o.x-(MUL(m[Z][X],o.x)+MUL(m[Z][Y],o.y)+MUL(m[Z][Z],o.z)); return (q); } /* An axis can also be specified by a pair of points, with the direction * along the line assumed from the ordering of the points. Although both * the previous routines assumed the axis vector was unit length without * checking, this routine must cope with a more delicate possibility. If * the two points are identical, or even nearly so, the axis is unknown. * For now the auxiliary routine which makes a unit vector ignores that. * It needs definitions like the following for floating point. #define SQRT sqrt #define RECIPROCAL(a) (1.0/(a)) */ VECTOR Normalize(VECTOR v) { VECTOR u; FPOINT norm = MUL(v.x,v.x)+MUL(v.y,v.y)+MUL(v.z,v.z); /* Better to test for (near-)zero norm before taking reciprocal. */ FPOINT scl = RECIPROCAL(SQRT(norm)); u.x = MUL(v.x,scl); u.y = MUL(v.y,scl); u.z = MUL(v.z,scl); return (u); } QUAT MatrixFromPointsAngle(POINT o, POINT p, ANGLE theta, MATRIX m) { QUAT q; VECTOR diff, axis; diff.x = p.x-o.x; diff.y = p.y-o.y; diff.z = p.z-o.z; axis = Normalize(diff); return (MatrixFromAnyAxisAngle(o,axis,theta,m)); }
Subject 5.02: What is ARCBALL and where is the source?
Arcball is a general purpose 3-D rotation controller described by Ken Shoemake in the Graphics Interface '92 Proceedings. It features good behavior, easy implementation, cheap execution, and optional axis constraints. A Macintosh demo and electronic version of the original paper (Microsoft Word format) may be obtained from ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/graphics.
Complete source code appears in Graphics Gems IV pp. 175-192. A fairly complete sketch of the code appeared in the original article, in Graphics Interface 92 Proceedings, available from Morgan Kaufmann.
Subject 5.03: How do I clip a polygon against a rectangle?
This is the Sutherland-Hodgman algorithm, an old favorite that should be covered in any textbook. Any of the references listed in the FAQ should have it. According to Vatti (q.v.) "This [algorithm] produces degenerate edges in certain concave / self intersecting polygons that need to be removed as a special extension to the main algorithm" (though this is not a problem if all you are doing with the results is scan converting them.)
Subject 5.04: How do I clip a polygon against another polygon?
Klamer Schutte, email@example.com has developed and implemented some code in C++ to perform clipping of two possibly concave 2-D polygons. A description can be found at: http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl:/People/klamer/clippoly_entry.html To compile the source code you will need a C++ compiler with templates, such as g++. The source code is available at: ftp://ftp.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/pub/klamer/clippoly.tar.gz. See also http://www.propro.ru/leonov/clipdoc.html, which extends the above to permit holes.
Alan Murta released a polygon clipper library (in C) which uses a modified version of the Vatti algorithm: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/index.html
Weiler, K. "Polygon Comparison Using a Graph Representation", SIGGRAPH 80 pg. 10-18
Vatti, Bala R. "A Generic Solution to Polygon Clipping", Communications of the ACM, July 1992, Vol 35, No. 7, pg. 57-63
Subject 5.05: How do I find the intersection of a line and a plane?
If the plane is defined as:
a*x + b*y + c*z + d = 0
and the line is defined as:
x = x1 + (x2 - x1)*t = x1 + i*t y = y1 + (y2 - y1)*t = y1 + j*t z = z1 + (z2 - z1)*t = z1 + k*t
Then just substitute these into the plane equation. You end up with:
t = - (a*x1 + b*y1 + c*z1 + d)/(a*i + b*j + c*k)
When the denominator is zero, the line is contained in the plane if the numerator is also zero (the point at t=0 satisfies the plane equation), otherwise the line is parallel to the plane.
Subject 5.06: How do I determine the intersection between a ray and a polygon
First find the intersection between the ray and the plane in which the polygon is situated. Then see if the point of intersection is in the polygon.
Subject 5.07: How do I determine the intersection between a ray and a sphere
Given a ray defined as:
x = x1 + (x2 - x1)*t = x1 + i*t y = y1 + (y2 - y1)*t = y1 + j*t z = z1 + (z2 - z1)*t = z1 + k*t
and a sphere defined as:
(x - l)**2 + (y - m)**2 + (z - n)**2 = r**2
Substituting in gives the quadratic equation:
a*t**2 + b*t + c = 0
a = i**2 + j**2 + k**2 b = 2*i*(x1 - l) + 2*j*(y1 - m) + 2*k*(z1 - n) c = (x1-l)**2 + (y1-m)**2 + (z1-n)**2 - r**2;
If the discriminant of this equation is less than 0, the line does not intersect the sphere. If it is zero, the line is tangential to the sphere and if it is greater than zero it intersects at two points. Solving the equation and substituting the values of t into the ray equation will give you the points.
Subject 5.08: How do I find the intersection of a ray and a bezier surface?
Joy I.K. and Bhetanabhotla M.N., "Ray tracing parametric surfaces utilizing numeric techniques and ray coherence", Computer Graphics, 16, 1986, 279-286
Joy and Bhetanabhotla is only one approach of three major method classes: tessellation, direct computation, and a hybrid of the two. Tessellation is relatively easy (you intersect the polygons making up the tessellation) and has no numerical problems, but can be inaccurate; direct is cheap on memory, but very expensive computationally, and can (and usually does) suffer from precision problems within the root solver; hybrids try to blend the two.
Subject 5.09: How do I ray trace caustics?
There is a discussion in [Watt:Animation], but I don't know how good it is.
It's hard to get right.
One right (but incredibly expensive) answer is:
author = "Don P. Mitchell and Pat Hanrahan",
title = "Illumination From Curved Reflectors",
year = "1992",
month = "July",
volume = "26",
booktitle = "Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '92
pages = "283--291",
keywords = "caustics, interval arithmetic, ray
editor = "Edwin E. Catmull",
A cheat:
author = "Masa Inakage",
title = "Caustics and Specular Reflection Models for
Spherical Objects and Lenses ",
pages = "379--383",
journal = "The Visual Computer",
volume = "2",
number = "6",
year = "1986",
keywords = "ray tracing effects",
very specialized:
author = "Ying Yuan and Tosiyasu L. Kunii and Naota
Inamato and Lining Sun ",
title = "Gemstone Fire: Adaptive Dispersive Ray Tracing
of Polyhedrons ",
year = "1988",
month = "November",
journal = "The Visual Computer",
volume = "4",
number = "5",
pages = "259--70",
keywords = "caustics",
Subject 5.10: What is the marching cubes algorithm?
The marching cubes algorithm is used in volume rendering to construct an isosurface from a 3D field of values.
The 2D analog would be to take an image, and for each pixel, set it to black if the value is below some threshold, and set it to white if it's above the threshold. Then smooth the jagged black outlines by skinning them with lines.
The marching cubes algorithm tests the corner of each cube (or voxel) in the scalar field as being either above or below a given threshold. This yields a collection of boxes with classified corners. Since there are eight corners with one of two states, there are 256 different possible combinations for each cube. Then, for each cube, you replace the cube with a surface that meets the classification of the cube. For example, the following are some 2D examples showing the cubes and their associated surface.
The result of the marching cubes algorithm is a smooth surface that approximates the isosurface that is constant along a given threshold. This is useful for displaying a volume of oil in a geological volume, for example.
"Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface
Construction Algorithm",
William E. Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline,
Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '87), Vol. 21, No.
4, pp. 163-169.
pp. 302-305 and 313-321
Subject 5.11: What is the status of the patent on the "marching cubes" algorithm?
United States Patent Number: 4,710,876
Date of Patent: Dec. 1, 1987
Inventors: Harvey E. Cline, William E. Lorensen
Assignee: General Electric Company
Title: "System and Method for the Display of Surface
Structures Contained Within the Interior Region of a Solid
Filed: Jun. 5, 1985
United States Patent Number: 4,885,688
Date of Patent: Dec. 5, 1989
Inventor: Carl R. Crawford
Assignee: General Electric Company
Title: "Minimization of Directed Points Generated in
Three-Dimensional Dividing Cubes Method"
Filed: Nov. 25, 1987
Just define all points of all polygons in clockwise order.
c = (x3*((z1*y2)-(y1*z2))+ (y3*((x1*z2)-(z1*x2))+ (z3*((y1*x2)-(x1*y2))+
x1,y1,z1, x2,y2,z2, x3,y3,z3 = the first three points of the polygon.
If c is positive the polygon is visible. If c is negative the polygon is invisible (or the other way).
Subject 5.13: Where can I find algorithms for 3D collision detection?
Check out "proxima", from Purdue, which is a C++ library for 3D collision detection for arbitrary polyhedra. It's a nice system; the algorithms are sophisticated, but the code is of modest size.
For information about the I_COLLIDE 3D collision detection system http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/I_COLLIDE.html
"Fast Collision Detection of Moving
Convex Polyhedra", Rich Rabbitz,
[Gems IV], pages 83-109,
includes source in C.
SOLID: "a library for collision detection of three-dimensional objects undergoing rigid motion and deformation. SOLID is designed to be used in interactive 3D graphics applications, and is especially suited for collision detection of objects and worlds described in VRML. Written in standard C++, compiles under GNU g++ version 2.8.1 and Visual C++ 5.0." See: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/tt/gino/solid/
Subject 5.14: How do I perform basic viewing in 3d?
We describe the shape and position of objects
using numbers, usually (x,y,z) coordinates. For example, the
corners of a cube might be {(0,0,0), (1,0,0), (1,1,0),
(0,1,0), (0,0,1), (1,0,1), (1,1,1), (0,1,1)}. A deep
understanding of what we are saying with these numbers
requires mathematical study, but I will try to keep this
simple. At the least, we must understand that we have
designated some point in space as the origin--coordinates
(0,0,0)--and marked off lines in 3 mutually perpendicular
directions using equally spaced units to give us (x,y,z)
values. It might be helpful to know if we are using 1 to mean
1 foot, 1 meter, or 1 parsec; the numbers alone do not tell
A picture on a screen is two steps removed from the 3D world it depicts. First, it is a 2D projection; and second, it is a finite resolution approximation to the infinitely precise projection. I will ignore the approximation (sampling) for now. To know what the projection looks like, we need to know where our viewpoint is, and where the plane of the projection is, both in the 3D world. Think of it as looking out a window into a scene. As artists discovered some 500 years ago, each point in the world appears to be at a point on the window. If you move your head or look out a different window, everything changes. When the mathematicians understood what the artists were doing, they invented perspective geometry.
If your viewpoint is at the origin--(0,0,0)--and the window sits parallel to the x-y plane but at z=1, projection is no more than (x,y,z) in the world appears at (x/z,y/z,1) on the plane. Distant points will have large z values, causing them to shrink in the picture. That's perspective.
The trick is to take an arbitrary viewpoint and plane, and transform the world so we have the simple viewing situation. There are two steps: move the viewpoint to the origin, then move the viewplane to the z=1 plane. If the viewpoint is at (vx,vy,vz), transform every point by the translation (x,y,z) --> (x-vx,y-vy,z-vz). This includes the viewpoint and the viewplane. Now we need to rotate so that the z axis points straight at the viewplane, then scale so it is 1 unit away.
After all this, we may find ourselves looking out upside- down. It is traditional to specify some direction in the world or viewplane as "up", and rotate so the positive y axis points that way (as nearly as possible if it's a world vector). Finally, we have acted so far as if the window was the entire plane instead of a limited portal. A final shift and scale transforms coordinates in the plane to coordinates on the screen, so that a rectangular region of interest (our "window") in the plane fills a rectangular region of the screen (our "canvas" if you like).
I have left out details of how you define and perform the rotation of the viewplane, but I'm sure someone else will be happy to supply those if there is demand. It requires knowing how to describe a plane, and how to rotate vectors to line up. Neither is difficult, but this is already using a lot of net space. One further practical difficulty is the need to clip away parts of the world behind us, so -(x,y,z) doesn't pop up at (x/z,y/z,1). (Notice the mathematics of projection alone would allow that!) But all the viewing transformations can be done using translation, rotation, scale, and a final perspective divide. If a 4x4 homogeneous matrix is used, it can represent everything needed, which saves a lot of work.
Subject 5.15: How Do I optimize a 3D polygon mesh
"Mesh Optimization" Hoppe, DeRose Duchamp,
McDonald, Stuetzle, ACM COMPUTER GRAPHICS Proceedings, Annual
Conference Series, 1993.
"Re-Tiling Polygonal Surfaces", Greg Turk, ACM Computer Graphics, 26, 2, July 1992
"Decimation of Triangle Meshes", Schroeder, Zarge, Lorensen, ACM Computer Graphics, 26, 2 July 1992
"Simplification of ObjectsRendered by Polygonal Approximations", Michael J. DeHaemer, Jr. and Michael J. Zyda, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1991, Great Britain: Pergamon Press, pp. 175-184.
"Topological Refinement Procedures for Triangular Finite Element Procedures", S. A. Cannan, S. N. Muthukrishnan and R. P. Phillips, Engineering With Computers, No. 12, p. 243-255, 1996.
"Progressive Meshes", Hoppe, SIGGRAPH 96, http://research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/siggraph96pm/paper.htm
Subject 5.16: How can I perform volume rendering?
Two principal methods can be used:
Ray casting or front-to-back, where the volume is behind the projection plane. A ray is projected from each point in the projection plane through the volume. The ray accumulates the properties of each voxel it passes through.
Object order or back-to-front, where the projection plane is behind the volume. Each slice of the volume is projected on the projection plane, from the farest plane to the nearest plane.
You can also use the marching-cubes algorithm, if the extraction of surfaces from the data set is easy to do (see Subject 5.10).
Here is one algorithm to do front-to-back volume rendering:
Set up a projection plane as a plane tangent to a sphere that encloses the volume. From each pixel of the projection plane, cast a ray through the volume by using a Bresenham 3D algorithm. The ray accumulates properties from each voxel intersected, stopping when the ray exits the volume. The pixel value on the projection plane determines the final color of the ray.
For unshaded images (i.e., without gradient and light computations),
if C is the ray color t the ray transparency
C' the new ray color t' the new ray transparency
Cv the voxel color tv the voxel transparency
C' = C + t*Cv and t' = t * tv
with initial values: C = 0.0 and t = 1.0
An alternate version: instead of C' = C + t*Cv , use :
C' = C + t*Cv*(1-tv)^p with p a float variable. Sometimes this gives the best results. When the ray has accumulated transparency, if it becomes negligible (e.g., t<0.1), the process can stop and proceed to the next ray.
Bresenham 3D:
- http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/graphics/bresenham.procs
- [Gems IV] p. 366
Volume rendering:
- [Watt:Animation]
pp. 297-321
- IEEE Computer Graphics and application
Vol. 10, Nb. 2, March 1990 - pp. 24-53
- "Volume Visualization"
Arie Kaufman - Ed. IEEE Computer Society Press Tutorial
- "Efficient Ray Tracing of Volume Data"
Marc Levoy - ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 9, Nb 3, July
Subject 5.17: Where can I get the spline description of the famous teapot etc?
See the Standard Procedural Databases software, whose official distribution site is http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/SPD/ This database contains much useful 3D code, including spline surface tessellation, for the teapot.
Subject 5.18: How can the distance between two lines in space be computed?
The following is robust C code from Seth Teller that computes the "points of closest approach" on two 3D lines. It also classifies the lines as parallel, intersecting, or (the generic case) skew.
// computes pB ON line B closest to line A // computes pA ON line A closest to line B // return: 0 if parallel; 1 if coincident; 2 if generic (i.e., skew) int line_line_closest_points3d ( POINT *pA, POINT *pB, // computed points const POINT *a, const VECTOR *adir, // line A, point-normal form const POINT *b, const VECTOR *bdir ) // line B, point-normal form { static VECTOR Cdir, *cdir = &Cdir; static PLANE Ac, *ac = &Ac, Bc, *bc = &Bc; // connecting line is perpendicular to both vcross ( cdir, adir, bdir ); // check for near-parallel lines if ( !vnorm( cdir ) ) { *pA = *a; // all points are closest *pB = *b; return 0; // degenerate: lines parallel } // form plane containing line A, parallel to cdir plane_from_two_vectors_and_point ( ac, cdir, adir, a ); // form plane containing line B, parallel to cdir plane_from_two_vectors_and_point ( bc, cdir, bdir, b ); // closest point on A is line A ^ bc intersect_line_plane ( pA, a, adir, bc ); // closest point on B is line B ^ ac intersect_line_plane ( pB, b, bdir, ac ); // distinguish intersecting, skew lines if ( edist( pA, pB ) < 1.0E-5F ) return 1; // coincident: lines intersect else return 2; // distinct: lines skew }
Also Dave Eberly has code for computing
distance between various geometric primitives, including
MinLineLine(), at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~eberly/gr_dist.htm.
Subject 5.19: How can I compute the volume of a polyhedron?
Assume that the surface is closed, every face is a triangle, and the vertices of each triangle are oriented ccw from the outside. Let Volume(t,p) be the signed volume of the tetrahedron formed by a point p and a triangle t. This may be computed by a 4x4 determinant, as in [O'Rourke, p.26].
Choose an arbitrary point p (e.g., the origin), and compute the sum Volume(t_i,p) for every triangle t_i of the surface. That is the volume of the object. The justification for this claim is nontrivial, but is essentially the same as the justification for the computation of the area of a polygon (Subject 2.01).
C Code available at http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/ and http://www.acm.org/jgt/papers/Mirtich96/ .
For computing the volumes of n-d convex polytopes, there is a C implementation by Bueeler and Enge of various algorithms available at| http://www.Mathpool.Uni-Augsburg.DE/~enge/Volumen.html.
Subject 5.20: How can I decompose a polyhedron into convex pieces?
Usually this problem is interpreted as seeking a collection of pairwise disjoint convex polyhedra whose set union is the original polyhedron P. The following facts are known about this difficult problem:
- Not every polyhedron may be partitioned by diagonals into tetrahedra. A counterexample is due to Scho:nhardt [O'Rourke (A), p.254].
- Determining whether a polyhedron may be so partitioned is NP-hard, a result due to Seidel & Ruppert [Disc. Comput. Geom. + 7(3) 227-254 (1992).]
- Removing the restriction to diagonals, i.e., permitting so-called Steiner points, there are polyhedra of n vertices that require n^2 convex pieces in any decomposition. This was established by Chazelle [SIAM J. Comput. 13: 488-507 (1984)]. See also [O'Rourke (A), p.256]
- An algorithm of Palios & Chazelle guarantees at most O(n+r^2) pieces, where r is the number of reflex edges (i.e., grooves). [Disc. Comput. Geom. 5:505-526 (1990).]
- Barry Joe's geompack package, at ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/geompack, includes a 3D convex decomposition Fortran program.
- There seems to be no other publicly available code.
Subject 5.21: How can the circumsphere of a tetrahedron be computed?
Let a, b, c, and d be the corners of the tetrahedron, with ax, ay, and az the components of a, and likewise for b, c, and d. Let |a| denote the Euclidean norm of a, and let a x b denote the cross product of a and b. Then the center m and radius r of the circumsphere are given by
| | | |d-a|^2 [(b-a)x(c-a)] + |c-a|^2 [(d-a)x(b-a)] + |b-a|^2 [(c-a)x(d-a)] | | | r= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | bx-ax by-ay bz-az | 2 | cx-ax cy-ay cz-az | | dx-ax dy-ay dz-az |
|d-a|^2 [(b-a)x(c-a)] + |c-a|^2 [(d-a)x(b-a)] + |b-a|^2 [(c-a)x(d-a)] m= a + --------------------------------------------------------------------- | bx-ax by-ay bz-az | 2 | cx-ax cy-ay cz-az | | dx-ax dy-ay dz-az |
Some notes on stability:
- Note that the expression for r is purely a function
of differences between coordinates. The
advantage is that the relative error incurred in
the computation of r is also a function of the differences
between the vertices, and is not influenced by the absolute
coordinates of the vertices. In most
applications, vertices are usually nearer to each
other than to the origin, so this property is
Similarly, the formula for m incurs roundoff error proportional to the differences between vertices, but not proportional to the absolute coordinates of the vertices until the final addition.
- These expressions are unstable in only one
case: if the denominator is close to
zero. This instability, which arises if the
tetrahedron is nearly degenerate, is
unavoidable. Depending on your application, you
may want to use exact arithmetic to compute
the value of the determinant.
Subject 5.22: How do I determine if two triangles in 3D intersect?
Let the two triangles be T1 and T2. If T2 lies strictly to one side of the plane containing T2, or T2 lies strictly to one side of the plane containing T1, the triangles do not intersect. Otherwise, compute the line of intersection L between the planes. Let Ik be the interval (Tk inter L), k=1,2. Either interval may be empty. T1 and T2 intersect iff I1 and I2 overlap.
This method is decribed in Tomas Mo:ller, "A fast triangle-triangle intersection test," J. Graphics Tools 2(2) 25-30 1997. C code at http://www.acm.org/jgt/papers/Moller97/.


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"we are winning on Liberty"... which is why we are "losing" on "gay marriage".
AFAIC the .gov should get out of "marriage" completely and leave it to the Churches.
"Marriage" - AS A .gov SANCTIONED INSTITUTION exists(ed) for a select few purposes... most of them noxious.
Just like "welfare", as soon as you take away the .gov incentives for or against a particular activity, the activity will normalize to its statistical mean... which, in the case of "gay marriage" will be about 3%.
Don't subsidize it and it will go away...
"Absent crime stats involving blacks and this nation has the same overall crime states as does Canada and Sweden."
Citation please. And while you are at it, cross correlate "drug war related".
I'm sure that will go far to prove your "black is ebil" theory...
(and yes, that last sentence was written that way intentionally...)
How much do any of you actually know about "mental illness"? I'd wager about as much as the Left knows about Gun Owners.
Mental Illness does NOT mean "potential mass murderer", and to say so is blatantly inflammatory, defamatory and stigmatizing.
While it IS true that UNTREATED mental illness CAN, but does not always, lead to violent behavior, TREATED mental illness is no more of a problem than Diabetes.
But uninformed articles like these stigmatize mental illness so badly that people are afraid to seek the treatment they need for the rational fear of being labeled and discriminated against.
Bravo. You have just driven another potential mass murderer away from the treatment he needs.
Actually, there is a significant reason to expect our future to look like The Hunger Games: UN Agenda 21.
My reasoning/thoughts on this are too long for this block of text, but can be read here:
Why the Extortion called "Income Tax" needs to go...
4.2 billion ANNUAL FRAUD by "Undocumented workers..." getting "Tax Refunds" - and the IRS doesn't care... but will, of course, audit YOU...
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happy denvish day 2005!
the spammers and flamers are overtaking the BBS. do you have what it takes to lay down the banstick and turn back the n00bs? help denvish, with the help of afro_ninja and negativeONE, defend the NG BBS, while looking out for that damn panda and the ultimate spammer.
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Some real nice touches, loved the Bedn boss, pandas, how Denvish was a Dog/squirrel thing, and how you kept it BBS themed, funny shit.
decent challenge, was lacking in the sound effect department (though voice clips were legendary) the slight co-op element gave it a little twist too heh.
What else to say? artwork was all good, title page was nice but a little scruffy in places, not really anything major though.
Overall, great effort, best game of the day!
thanks. i didnt anticipate doing a full game, but i thought it turned out nicely. the sound clips turned out better than i could have expected.
denvish = mongoose. that shouldve been cleared up...
Rated 4 / 5 stars December 11, 2005
using AS in you responds autorblues...
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anyways i love the idea, and using AS:main as shields, genius. you need to make it harder though.
sorry if theres alot of typos in this review. I'm rushing this because i really have to pee...... had
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars December 9, 2005
mmm, spam
Spam invaders, fiven. Wow you really are OCD Authorblues, one day you are going to have a huge hit and a billion reviews which you can not possibly respond to and you will implode. But untill then, nice job.
thanks. thats what i hope for. even if i had Math.pow(10, 10); reviews, id answer them all. its polite to respond to people who are nice enough to comment on your game. and its fun to harass those who are rude enough to leave mean comments. everyone wins...
Rated 5 / 5 stars December 6, 2005
I.... HATE..... pandas
Time to catch up, I really need to be getting on with my own games =)
Graphics were very sweet, coding was top-notch, game was great. My favourite DD submission for sure. It's obvious that a lot of effort went into this, and it's just really nicely presented and polished. I'm disappointed that it didn't make the dailies, I think it deserved to.
Now I'm not sure about the whole mongoose thing, and it's a bit annoying when my 'friends' keep shooting me, lol. 72156 current best, I'll be back to play this again
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thanks for the compliments. i thought DF's art was perfect for this game, and the coding was a great learning experience for me. i hoped to make the dailies, or even frontpage, but no such luck.
as for your friends: i was trying to capture the TRUE essence of negONE...
glad you liked it.
authorblues (and DFB by proxy)...
Rated 2 / 5 stars December 5, 2005
well i like the idea but how to you shoot,i can enjoy the game if im not doing anything....
you didnt hear? denvish doesnt do anything on denvish day. that would ruin the festivities if you were to make him do work.
just kidding. use the mouse. it tells you that in the instructions.


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My priorities as your State Representative have remained the same throughout my almost six years of service: promote the creation of private-sector jobs and economic growth, demand fiscal responsibility throughout state government, and make sure the interests of the voters and taxpayers of our community are faithfully represented when I vote on proposed legislation.
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As an advocate of right-sizing Pennsylvania's government, Rep. Mike Vereb voted in favor of legislation that passed through the House that would reduce the size of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to 153 members, from the current 203 members.
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July 3, 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, FR
While she had been acting in her native France for many years, Ludivine Sagnier did not gain international fame until she portrayed a seductive young woman who held deep secrets in the blockbuster "Swimming Pool" (2003). She was born on July 3, 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France. Sagnier made her acting debut in the films "Les maris, les femmes, les amants" (1989) and "I Want to Go Home" (1989), followed by an appearance in the comedy "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1990). During her teen years, Sagnier appeared in several made-for-TV movies, as well as films like "Les enfants du siècle" (1999). Her career heated up when she appeared nude in films like "Water Drops on Burning Rocks" (2000) and "Little Lili" (2003). Sagnier earned a Cesar Award nomination for her role in "8 Women" (2002), but it was the actress' performance in François Ozon's 2003 thriller "Swimming Pool" that made her an international star. She played the Provencal nymphet, Julie, whose life of one-night stands becomes entangled in a seemingly real-life murder mystery written by an uptight author (Charlotte Rampling). With her blonde hair and considerable curves, Sagnier became a favorite to play the sexy seductress, but she played against type as Tinker Bell in the fantasy "Peter Pan" (2003). Following the American success of "Swimming Pool," Sagnier received many offers from Hollywood, but she remained committed to appearing in French films like the ensemble feature "Paris, je t'aime" (2006), "The Girl Cut in Two" (2007), and "Lily Sometimes" (2010). LessWhile she had been acting in her native France for many years, Ludivine Sagnier did not gain international fame until she … More
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11:30 a.m.-2:30 a.m. Fridays
11 a.m.-2:30 a.m. Saturdays
11 a.m.-midnight Sundays.
Behind Porter Beer Bar is a young couple with a culinary résumé that most people in the restaurant business don't acquire until they are much older; some never at all. Chef Nick Rutherford and Molly Gunn once worked for Seeger's, mega chef Guenter Seeger's five-star wonder in Buckhead, for example. To their abundant smarts add a bit of panache on a very low budget, and a prime spot in Little Five Points where they serve hip bar food and more than 100 different beers. Voilá, a gastropub is born. Sure, there are the usual pub grub suspects -- burgers, fish and chips and, since this is Little Five Points, a black bean burger. But there are also "signature" hush puppies fried with applewood-smoked bacon and served with a tangy apple sauce. And brandade, served with toast slices for dipping, smearing and generally rubbing around until there is absolutely none of this classic, a puree of salt cod, garlic and potatoes, left.
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