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The dark side of workaholism and why it is never too late to hit the breaks
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- (Monkey, 30 )
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Hi tigers! I admit it - I used to be a workaholic. I used to see myself as an achievement oriented, results focused and hard driving career woman. I was in denial. The workaholism symptoms are really hard to spot. It started with a lingering feeling of guilt every time I took a day or even a few hours off. I remember liking to play the role of "earth mother". Always available to pick up the next pitch. Always happy to stay in the office during public holidays. Always ready to fly 5 hours on business for an one hour meeting. Then I realized that I stopped buying casual cloths (when would I wear them?) - Instead my business suits, white shirts, black leather bags and high heels took over my wardrobe. Maybe that is when I started to spend my weekends at the office. One day I woke up with a realization that my self-esteem was completely defined through work. Here is what happened next:
I got scared. The fear to lose my business card identity made me do irrational things. Like working even more! I was digging in until I was unable to switch off. The already high expectations from my bosses became even higher. Perversely, it made me feel needed and appreciated. Until one day it became clear to me that I changed and I didn't like what I saw. I used to be brilliant, capable, creative and easy to get along with. I became controlling, obsessed with performance and not interesting to talk to. I hit the bottom.
Today I am celebrating the 3rd anniversary of my decision to take a break and escape from my predicament. Instead of spending a hundred grand on an MBA I put a fraction of that amount in the best investment I ever made and travelled around the world for one year. I met great people, some of whom became my dear friends and mentors. I got my life and self-esteem back. My career perspectives look great because I am more creative, productive and motivated. I am not afraid to let go because I have a broader set of skills to build upon. Most importantly, I use my time strategically and focus on fulfilling my own dreams rather than getting paid to fulfil someone else's.
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Guilty and still an enthusiastic participant in the rat race.
I admire your decision to take a very long break, however wonder if that wouldn't take you out of the gene pool for the 'interesting' (from a workaholic's perspective) career tracks? What are you up to now?
- Tommy Too-toned
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- (Gorilla, 614 )
- on 1/2/13 at 6:00pm
What are you going to do next and what is your personality type? Interested to know more about where you're taking things
- SureThing
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- (Senior Orangutan, 429 )
- on 1/2/13 at 7:46pm
Haha, worker drones! Say "Hello" to the man for me!
When a plumber from Hoboken tells you he has a good feeling about a reverse iron condor spread on the Japanese Yen, you really have no choice. If you don't do it to him, somebody else surely will. -Eddie B.
- etherlord
- (Senior Baboon, 226 )
- on 1/2/13 at 8:34pm
Tell us the whole story: what do you do now, and how are you going to survive in the future?
"I dumped everything and went traveling until I ran out of cash" is nice when you land on your feet after that. If you ended up living on your friend's couch, and flipping burgers/grooming dogs for living, that is not a good outcome from the average workaholics perspective, even though it might be something that makes you happy.
- ShreddiesBrah
- (King Kong, 1,347 )
- on 1/2/13 at 8:36pm
OP will marry a gunner who did the 2+2+HBS+Prestige path and live happily every after. You bros do not have that option. Remember that.1
Tigers? We are monkeys here.
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- (Gorilla, 614 )
- on 1/2/13 at 9:23pm
Lioness, Lioness, tell us more.
I worked in banking and consulting and had a similar experience. One day a friend of mine was in the hospital and I went to visit over lunch. It wasn't a life threatening illness or anything, and I'm not a doctor now, but it made me realize how "removed" I was. I was just sitting in the hospital cafeteria and it hit me like a sack of bricks. It's amazing how seriously people in finance take their lives....not that there's anything wrong with working hard..but sometimes, it's just a bit..
I never understood how people could love work so much. But then I learned from my friend who's just as bad as the OP that its not the work, it's the addiction to praise, feeling needed, and status. Even then, I still dont understand why people care what others think about them when everyone else is too into themselves to give a shit about you.
Some people only have this realisation when they suddenly lose their job. For them it's a huge shock.
Do you regret getting into the industry in the first place? I wonder if you wish you'd done something else after college.
So op, I take it you didn't get in to the industry in the first place because you loved it/wanted to dedicate your life to mastery of it?
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- (Gorilla, 701 )
- on 1/3/13 at 1:48am
I have the same question has etherlord. Taking an extended break does sound good in theory. But when there's no guarantee that you'll still have a job after even a month's break, how do you start back again after a whole year off the grid?
Read my blog: Bateman Begins
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- (Senior Baboon, 218 )
- on 1/3/13 at 3:07am
From a family of workaholics, so I understand where you're coming from. I am also looking to study/travel abroad sometime as well.
- byucko
- (Senior Monkey, 72 )
- on 1/3/13 at 5:08am
Seen it in Eat Pray Love
In reply to etherlord etherlord:Tell us the whole story: what do you do now, and how are you going to survive in the future?
"I dumped everything and went traveling until I ran out of cash" is nice when you land on your feet after that. If you ended up living on your friend's couch, and flipping burgers/grooming dogs for living, that is not a good outcome from the average workaholics perspective, even though it might be something that makes you happy.
The trick is to build a very solid network. Even better is to start the job hunt a few months before you return home. If you have strong enough contacts you may just land the job before you get back.dolph:Some people only have this realisation when they suddenly lose their job. For them it's a huge shock.
AKA mid life crisis.
- The Lioness
- ?
- (Monkey, 30 )
- on 1/3/13 at 11:01am
Thanks for all the comments. Maybe I am just lucky but I picked it up more or less where I left it (except for healthier attitude and higher energy, LOL). I didn't just "drop everything and disappear". Actually, I am pretty risk-averse. I think it is about being hedged under the worst case scenario while planing for the best outcome. From your comments and questions it is clear that the subject is very complex. I am writing a follow up post about it. Hope we can keep this discussion going. Stay tuned in.
The more you know the less you need. Right?1
- etherlord
- (Senior Baboon, 226 )
- on 1/3/13 at 11:07am
Tell us the strategy how you did that. I think, there are many people who would like to know how to plan ahead, so they come back and are able to pick where they left. From what I've seen, that rarely happens.
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Re: Cocoon Nebula from DSSPHi Hank - thanks for the comment. Subs were: luminance 14 x 10 min., RGB 8 X 5 min. each all unbinned. CS, Dave Sent from my iPad
Dave Weixelman
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Re: Temperature Compensation for SV80 triplet... I downloaded the trial FocusMax and will see if it works with Nebulosity 4. Nebulosity does have an interface now so, we will see. Thanks, Jon
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!Hi Mary, Happy Birthday! Enjoy the new scope! And if your hubby is feeling generous tell him there are a bunch more of us with birthdays :-) Cheers, Mark
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Re: Temperature Compensation for SV80 tripletIf you are fighting bad seeing, FocusMax is the way to go. It will average several readings at each point to generate an accurate V curve. It can't improve
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Re: A fish from the heart - IC1795 shot at LikelyThanks Bruce, Vic, and Harry! I hope to get some more data for this project next month, so stay tuned.
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!Hi Mary - What a great and romantic story. Happy birthday to you and kudo's to your thoughtful hubby. Clear Skies ... We'll be awaiting a first-light report.
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Re: Anyone using a Nikon D810a with a SVQ 100?Hi Bret, To check telescope performance for full frame sensor, you can search with another camera since Nikon D810a is new. Nikon D800, D800E, D810 or Canon
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!I agree! I love roses, but the telescope will certainly last a lot longer! Mary
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!Goes to show you.....the only thing better than a box of LONG stem roses is a box of LONG refractor! Love is in the air!
D S Vanderbilt
Jul 29#132628
Re: Thank you Vic!!!Cool. Happy early birthday! :-) CS, Scott, in NC To: email@example.com From: email@example.com Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:40:30 -0700
Scott in NC
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!You are right Max, he definitely deserves some chocolate, which is his favorite! Mary
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!LOL, actually both Scott, he is super nice and surprised me with an early birthday gift! I am one lucky gal! This is quite a long scope, I hope I can handle
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!YAY, MARY! YAY, HUBBY! Mary, you should give your Hubby chocolate. Max H.(Site 20 at 2015 DSSP) YAY, MARY! YAY, HUBBY! Mary, you should give your Hubby
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Re: Thank you Vic!!!Very nice, Mary--congrats! So what's the special occasion (birthday, anniversary, etc.)? Or do you just have a super-nice hubby? Clear skies, Scott, in NC
Scott in NC
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Re: Temperature Compensation for SV80 tripletYes Mark, the FocusLink software does have temp comp and a wizard to set it up which I have used but, the problem is my seeing conditions do not really let me
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Market research firm Infonetics Research released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 1st quarter 2014 (1Q14) PON, FTTH, and DSL Aggregation Equipment and Subscribers report. (Full report published by May 30.)
"Compared to the year-ago quarter, GPON equipment revenue is up a solid 44% in the first quarter of 2014, a result of continued fiber-to-the-home spending in China and EMEA," notes Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband access and pay TV at Infonetics Research.
"And while the first quarter is typically the slowest of the year in North America, and this one was no different, it's a good sign that the 10% revenue boost we saw in 2013 is carrying over into this year," continues Heynen. "AT&T, CenturyLink, Windstream, and tier 3 operators all have dedicated plans in place to expand their VDSL and GPON deployments in an effort to keep pace with cable DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts and fiber offerings from upstarts like Google."
- The global broadband aggregation equipment market (DSL, PON, and Ethernet FTTH) is down 5% in 1Q14 from 4Q13, but up a healthy 23% year-over-year, totaling $1.89 billion
- The only equipment category that grew sequentially in 1Q14 is PON (+0.1%)
- Despite a slow 1st quarter, EMEA continues to reap major vectored VDSL2 projects at KPN, Belgacom, Turk Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom, among others, and see a ramp in FTTH spending in Russia and the Middle East
- In China, meanwhile, China Telecom and China Unicom are slowing their FTTH investments to focus on LTE rollouts, while China Mobile picks up the slack, expanding the China Tietong fixed broadband network it inherited in 2008
- #2 Alcatel-Lucent finished 1Q14 only around $1 million behind top dog Huawei
Infonetics' quarterly broadband aggregation report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for EPON, GPON, FTTH, FTTB, PON, and DSL aggregation equipment and subscribers. Vendors tracked: Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Alphion, Arris, Calix, Cisco, Dasan Networks, ECI, Fiberhome, Fujitsu, Genexis, Hitachi, Huawei, Iskratel, Mitsubishi, NEC, OF Networks, PacketFront, Sagemcom, Sumitomo, Tellabs, Tilgin, Ubiquoss, UTStarcom, Zhone, ZTE, ZyXel, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
- Infonetics' May Broadband Access research brief: http://bit.ly/RaAvez
- Operators rate Arris and Pace top residential gateway vendors in Infonetics survey
- 802.11ac routers to make up nearly a third of WiFi-enabled router shipments by 2015
- China's huge LTE rollouts and EU network upgrades push carrier capex to $354B this year
- Tier 3 operators ramping VDSL2 in 2014, rate Calix, Adtran, ALU top broadband vendors
- Infonetics launches broadband subscriber database of 130+ service providers
Download Infonetics' 2014 market research brochure, publication calendar, events brochure, report highlights, tables of contents, and more at http://www.infonetics.com/login.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that HPM Networks will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For 20 years, HPM Networks has been integrating technology solutions that solve complex business challenges. HPM Networks has designed solutions for both SMB and enterprise customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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For IoT to grow as quickly as analyst firms' project, a lot is going to fall on developers to quickly bring applications to market. But the lack of a standard development platform threatens to slow growth and make application development more time consuming and costly, much like we've seen in the mobile space. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Weiner, Product Manager of the Omega DevCloud with KORE Telematics Inc., discussed the evolving requirements for developers as IoT matures and conducte...
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The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which enables organizations to seamlessly run in a hybrid cloud model (public + private cloud), is here to stay. IDC estimates that the software-defined networking market will be valued at $3.7 billion by 2016. Security is a key component and benefit of the SDDC, and offers an opportunity to build security 'from the ground up' and weave it into the environment from day one. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin,...
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With SaaS use rampant across organizations, how can IT departments track company data and maintain security? More and more departments are commissioning their own solutions and bypassing IT. A cloud environment is amorphous and powerful, allowing you to set up solutions for all of your user needs: document sharing and collaboration, mobile access, e-mail, even industry-specific applications. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Shawn Mills, President and a founder of Green House Data, discussed h...
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Mobile, social, Big Data, and cloud have fundamentally changed the way we live. "Anytime, anywhere" access to data and information is no longer a luxury; it's a requirement, in both our personal and professional lives. For IT organizations, this means pressure has never been greater to deliver meaningful services to the business and customers.
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Container technology is sending shock waves through the world of cloud computing. Heralded as the 'next big thing,' containers provide software owners a consistent way to package their software and dependencies while infrastructure operators benefit from a standard way to deploy and run them. Containers present new challenges for tracking usage due to their dynamic nature. They can also be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines and various cloud platforms. How do software owners track the usag...
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The Internet of Everything (IoE) brings together people, process, data and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before – transforming information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. IoE creates new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented opportunities to improve business and government operations, decision making and mission support capabilities.
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Puppet Labs has announced the next major update to its flagship product: Puppet Enterprise 2015.2. This release includes new features providing DevOps teams with clarity, simplicity and additional management capabilities, including an all-new user interface, an interactive graph for visualizing infrastructure code, a new unified agent and broader infrastructure support.
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Chuck Piluso presented a study of cloud adoption trends and the power and flexibility of IBM Power and Pureflex cloud solutions. Prior to Secure Infrastructure and Services, Mr. Piluso founded North American Telecommunication Corporation, a facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier licensed by the Public Service Commission in 10 states, serving as the company's chairman and president from 1997 to 2000. Between 1990 and 1997, Mr. Piluso served as chairman & founder of International Te...
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There are many considerations when moving applications from on-premise to cloud. It is critical to understand the benefits and also challenges of this migration. A successful migration will result in lower Total Cost of Ownership, yet offer the same or higher level of robustness. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Michael Meiner, an Engineering Director at Oracle, Corporation, analyzed a range of cloud offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and discussed the benefits/challenges of migrating to each offe...
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Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama.
He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they administer presidential policies and, unlike judicial appointments, they leave when their nominators do.
Hagel will be confirmed because Sen. Chuck Schumer, after hesitating theatrically enough to propitiate supporters of Israel, of whom there are many among his New York constituents, will not oppose Hagel.
Opposition would end Schumer's hope to make the nation nostalgic for Harry Reid by succeeding him as Senate Democratic leader.
Still, the hearings will be sound and fury signifying renewed interest in national security policy, which can be illuminated by Hagel addressing questions like these:
In 1997, 28 years after you returned from Vietnam with two Purple Hearts, we heard a May 27, 1964, taped telephone conversation in which President Lyndon Johnson said to his national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy: "I don't think it's worth fighting for and I don't think we can get out."
Johnson also said: "What in the hell is Vietnam worth to me? What is Laos worth to me? What is it worth to this country?"
At the time, there were only 16,000 U.S. forces in Vietnam, where there had been only 266 U.S. deaths. The U.S. deployment would peak at more than 500,000 in 1969 and 58,000 would die there. How did this tape, and Vietnam generally, shape your thinking?
Your critics say that you managed to be wrong on Iraq twice, by supporting the 2003 invasion and by opposing the 2007 surge. If the surge had not happened, what would have happened in Iraq?
How many sorties, including attacks on Iran's air defense systems, would be required to significantly degrade and delay Iran's nuclear program? Can Israel mount such an air campaign alone? Would you favor U.S. cooperation, with intelligence and special munitions?
Did you refuse to sign a 2006 letter urging the European Union to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization because you consider that designation inaccurate? From your 2009 endorsement of U.S. negotiations with Hamas, can we conclude that you oppose the policy of not negotiating with terrorists?
You call our sanctions against Cuba "outdated," "unrealistic," "irrelevant" and "nonsensical." What Cuba policy would you recommend?
Do you agree with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's judgment that cuts under sequestration would "hollow out the force"? Can you give examples of procurements or deployments that justify your description of the Defense Department as "bloated"?
Taxes Vs. Prosperity: The Real Wedge Issue Ronald Reagan died 11 years ago, and his presidency ended a quarter century ago. But my, how his tax-cutting ideas live on. The living legacy of Reaganomics, or supply-side economics, is that tax rates keep falling all over the world. Imitation really is ...
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M. Bächer, S. Coros, B. Thomaszewski
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, USA, August 9-13, 2015), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 34, no. 4.Abstract We present a method for interactive editing of planar linkages. Given a working linkage as input, the user can make targeted edits to the shape or motion of selected parts while preserving other, e.g., functionally-important aspects. In order to make this process intuitive and efficient, we provide a number of editing tools at different levels of abstraction. For instance, the user can directly change the structure of a linkage by displacing joints, edit the motion of selected points on the linkage, or impose limits on the size of its enclosure. Our method safeguards against degenerate configurations during these edits, thus ensuring the correct functioning of the mechanism at all times. Linkage editing poses strict requirements on performance that standard approaches fail to provide. In order to enable interactive and robust editing, we build on a symbolic kinematics approach that uses closed-form expressions instead of numerical methods to compute the motion of a linkage and its derivatives. We demonstrate our system on a diverse set of examples, illustrating the potential to adapt and personalize the structure and motion of existing linkages. To validate the feasibility of our edited designs, we fabricated two physical prototypes.
M. Bächer, E. Whiting, B. Bickel, O. Sorkine-Hornung
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Vancouver, CAN, August 10-14, 2014), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 33, no. 4.Abstract Spinning tops and yo-yos have long fascinated cultures around the world with their unexpected, graceful motions that seemingly elude gravity. We present an algorithm to generate designs for spinning objects by optimizing rotational dynamics properties. As input, the user provides a solid 3D model and a desired axis of rotation. Our approach then modifies the mass distribution such that the principal directions of the moment of inertia align with the target rotation frame. We augment the model by creating voids inside its volume, with interior fill represented by an adaptive multi-resolution voxelization. The discrete voxel fill values are optimized using a continuous, nonlinear formulation. Further, we optimize for rotational stability by maximizing the dominant principal moment. We extend our technique to incorporate deformation and multiple materials for cases where internal voids alone are insufficient. Our method is well-suited for a variety of 3D printed models, ranging from characters to abstract shapes. We demonstrate tops and yo-yos that spin surprisingly stably despite their asymmetric appearance.
M. Bächer, B. Bickel, D. L. James, H. Pfister
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, USA, August 5-9, 2012), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 31, no. 4.
B. Bickel, M. Bächer, M. A. Otaduy, H. R. Lee, H. Pfister, M. Gross, W. Matusik
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, USA, July 25-29, 2010), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, no. 4.
B. Bickel, M. Bächer, M. A. Otaduy, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Gross
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (New Orleans, USA, August 3-7, 2009), ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 28, no. 3.
C. Ledergerber, G. Guennebaud, M. Meyer, M. Bächer, H. Pfister
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), 14(6):1372-1379, 2008.Abstract The method of Moving Least Squares (MLS) is a popular framework for reconstructing continuous functions from scattered data due to its rich mathematical properties and well-understood theoretical foundations. This paper applies MLS to volume rendering, providing a unified mathematical framework for ray casting of scalar data stored over regular as well as irregular grids. We use the MLS reconstruction to render smooth isosurfaces and to compute accurate derivatives for high-quality shading effects. We also present a novel, adaptive preintegration scheme to improve the efficiency of the ray casting algorithm by reducing the overall number of function evaluations, and an efficient implementation of our framework exploiting modern graphics hardware. The resulting system enables high-quality volume integration and shaded isosurface rendering for regular and irregular volume data.
H. Zhang, J. K. Lai, M. Bächer
The 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP), 2012.
M. Bächer
Ph.D. Thesis, Advisor: H. Pfister, Harvard University, 2013.
M. Bächer
Master Thesis, Advisor: B. Bickel, Supervisor: M. Gross, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2008.
P. A. Beardsley, M. Bächer
U.S. Patent. Pub. No.: US 2009/0297020 A1, Pub. Date: Dec. 3, 2009.
M. Bächer
Harvard University, 2009.


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