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Despite their problems, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are getting along great these days. But the actress isn't letting things go too far in the romance department.
The actress, 46, admitted to David Letterman Wednesday on CBS's The Late Show that her estranged husband, 39, got a little frisky on their recent trip to Disney World with their daughter Coco.
"He did try to hit on me, yeah," she said. "He hit pretty hard, and I said, 'You know, you don't have the Fast Pass right now. Not to that ride!' "
She then joked that Disney policy was to "put us in separate rooms."
The Cougar Town star, who worked with her husband on the newly released Scream 4, says that oddly enough, the pair are "kind of the best we've ever been," because they've had to be so honest with each other.
She said she recently told Arquette that he'll probably find "somebody named Tiffany or Britney," and joked that they'll need her help with the housework.
"I was by his house the other day," she said, "and I saw that everything is looking the way he would like it to look, as opposed to the way I would like it to look. And I just said, 'Look, when you end up with one of those girls, if we don't make it, can I come over and just organize the drawers a little bit? Just keep it the way it was?' "
On a more serious note, she said Arquette is "over 100 days sober. He's doing great."
As for their future together, she added: "I don't know what's going to happen. I really don't. I'm sure this decision needs to be made at some point, but we're getting along so well that I hate to rock the boat. I really do."
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After a third consecutive sweep, this one to the Detroit Tigers, the Indians postseason hopes have been officially demolished. As we move into "there's always next year" mode, focus should switch to the young players like recent call-up Ezequiel Carrera and future all-star Jason Kipnis. It will be interesting now to see how Corey Kluber and Chris Seddon pitch for the rest of the year as next years starting rotation seems to be completely up in the air after Justin Masterson.
One interesting point to the rest of the season will be if the Indians bother bringing back a number of injured/suspended players including Grady Sizemore, Rafael Perez, Carlos Carrasco and Roberto Hernandez (Fausto Carmona). In the cases of players who should be back next season (Perez and Carrasco) they should probably try to at least get them back by September, but there is little point in the other two players who are not signed through 2013. If the Indians brain trust has any brains left that we can trust, Grady will have to be released post 2012 and Hernandez probably should be as well.
August 6th, 7:05 PM EDT: Scott Diamond, LHP, 9-5, 2.93 ERA vs Zach McAllister, RHP, 4-3, 3.42 ERA
Looking at the Indians successes against left handed pitching so far this season, I see no reason to believe the Indians current losing streak won't continue on to ten games. This year Diamond has faced the Tribe twice, going 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA. One game was a complete game shutout, while in the other he allowed 3 unearned runs in 7 innings. It is possible with the recent roster changes and the extra motivation of a lost season and an extremely long losing streak that the Indians may be able to change their fortunes and actually win this game, however unlikely.
August 7th, 7:05 PM EDT: Sam Deduno, RHP, 3-0, 2.48 ERA vs Corey Kluber, RHP, 0-0, 12.46 ERA
Don't worry about Kluber's ERA. He has only made one start and really calmed down after the first inning. What you should worry about is Deduno's. After throwing a two hit, one run game against the Tribe, Deduno stepped it up and didn't allow a run to score against Boston in his next start. This ancient (29) Dominican hasn't had a bad start this year and seems to be getting better each time out.
August 8th, 12:05 PM EDT: Brian Duensing, RHP, 2-6, 4.39 vs Justin Masterson, RHP, 7-10, 4.78 ERA
The Indians have a shot at winning this one with their ace throwing and a right hander opposing. At most this losing streak should last 11 games. If the Indians losing streak continues through this game Manny Acta will possibly start using Vinnie Pestano in the second or third innings and leaving him in until the ninth.

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Since it went on the market in February, this three-bedroom, three-bath penthouse duplex at 383 Carlton Avenue has had three price cuts, most recently a 10-percent reduction ($225,000) sometime yesterday. New York test-drove the space this spring and found it pleasing enough. It's certainly swanky, with all the top finishes and appliances. And with 2,328 square feet, a roof terrace, and two balconies, there's plenty of space for entertaining. The new price tag of $1.875 million is nearly a million less than that initial asking, making the penthouse primed for the picking. "It's a very dramatic price drop," admits listing broker Jerry Minsky of the Corcoran Group. "The owner's ready to sell. It's one the nicest apartments in downtown Brooklyn." S. Jhoanna Robledo Related: This Is Not My Beautiful House! This Is Not My Beautiful Life! [NYM]


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You are bogging.
That shirt is bogging.
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To be tired to a point in which you can't find a better word other than bogging.
To be Extremely lazy due to a previous encounter with a strenuous activity.
To be Extremely lazy due to a previous encounter with a strenuous activity.
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a word that is used by a person that has no clue of australian culture. The term is gennerally used by asians who are unsure about the australian work bogan.
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Samsung, DoCoMo Team Up to Sell Galaxy Devices
TOKYO—Samsung Electronics Co. will team with Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. to sell the South Korean company's Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab tablet device in Japan, as Samsung looks to expand in a market traditionally dominated by local handset makers.
Competition in the smartphone and tablet markets has been heating up, following the launch of Apple Inc. AAPL 0.78 % 's iPad and iPhone, which have gained popularity among consumers globally. In Japan, Samsung has had a difficult time gaining ground because local handset vendors have had an upper hand, making handsets that cater to the unique taste of Japanese consumers. Even though Samsung is the world's biggest television maker and has a strong presence in most consumer gadgets globally, the company has kept a low profile in Japan, practically absent from the country's consumer market. Many Japanese consumers often prefer domestic electronic brands, believing that they offer better quality.
The South Korean electronics giant hopes that by partnering with DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone carrier by subscriptions, it will be able to compete better.
For DoCoMo, the aim is to offer a rival device that can effectively compete with Apple's products. DoCoMo's rival Softbank Corp. 9984 -2.80 % is the exclusive carrier for the Apple devices in Japan, which have been boosting data traffic and per-user revenue at the country's No. 3 carrier.
Both the Galaxy S, to be released in Japan this month, and the Galaxy Tab, to be released in Japan in late November, run on Google Inc.'s Android operating software. A DoCoMo spokesman said the Galaxy S will likely cost less than 30,000 yen ($360), while the Galaxy Tab will be in the 40,000 to 45,000 yen range, both based on a two-year contract with DoCoMo.
Although the iPhone still leads the smartphone market in Japan, "I'm fully convinced that the new products can compete against Apple," said DoCoMo President Ryuji Yamada, adding that the Android operating system has "infinite potential."
"Here in Japan, consumers demand highly sophisticated devices," said J.K. Shin, head of the mobile communications business at Samsung, at a news conference in Tokyo.
In addition to carrying the latest Android operating system, the Galaxy smartphone and tablet in Japan will offer DoCoMo services , which Samsung hopes will help differentiate the products from the iPhone and iPad.
Samsung officials said at the news conference that the company has so far sold more than five million Galaxy S smartphones world-wide, and that it has no clear sales target figures for the just-announced Galaxy Tab.
Spearheaded by the iPhone, the market for smartphones in Japan has been rapidly expanding. Meanwhile, Japanese electronics makers such as Sharp Corp. SHCAY 1.57 % and Toshiba Corp. TOSYY -0.40 % plan to launch tablet devices this year and early next year to take advantage of the burgeoning market for tablets,dominated by Apple's iPad.
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DETROIT, MI - Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday he hopes his appearance at the Detroit bankruptcy hearing next week will help move the process along.
Snyder, talking to reporters in Lansing, said he wasn't excited about going to court on Monday, but wanted to support the proceedings.
"I don't think most of the people normally would get excited about appearing in court," he said. "What I would say If it moves along the pricess I think it could be a positive step. I want to see the bankruptcy move forward in a constructive, thoughtful way. If this helps move it along faster and better it's a good thing to do."
Snyder said he didn't know if legal counsels had worked out any restrictions on his appearance, only that he'd appear on Monday.
Snyder's attorneys had argued his three-hour deposition on Detroit's bankruptcy filing should be enough testimony for the case.
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A mudslide is when your close friend or grandmother reclines on the floor with plastic wrap over their face and you squeeze off a poop onto the plastic wrap. The poop slides off your grandmothers face just like mud off a hill.
Derrick paid me 20 bucks to give her a mudslide last weekend.
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When a man has anal intercourse with a partner, using that partner's diarrhea as lubrication.
Dude, Darragh gave guy a mudslide, there's totally diarrhea all over his cock... what a homo!
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When you fuck a girl up the ass and then she takes a shit all over your dick. If you ejaculate it turns into an snowy avalanche
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Katie has won the "moms say the darndest things" ice cream contest with this funny entry:
When I was a sophomore in college at home during a break, I had a "friend" who had already graduated and was coming back to visit. I was waiting for his phone call when I needed to freshen up. Mom asked how she should respond if he called and in my effort to try to impress him I told her to say that I was "indisposed", incorrect of course but I thought it sounded sophisticated. Of course, of course the phone rang and it was he, my dreamy older guy. I was thrilled he called until I heard my mom say,"She's been disposed of, may I take a message?"
After a flurry of emails, here's what Katie had to say::
Wow. This is really exciting. Can't wait to tell Mom! Once I won a set of lawn chairs from Kroger's, but this is much better than that. … I'm 48, wait, scratch that, I'm now 49, yikes, how did that happen. I'm lucky to work for a great man, Bill White, and have for a number of years. I'm married to an amazing man, Paul, for almost 17 years and we have two children, Juliette (named after my mom) who is 6 and Jackson who is 5. If you are doing the math, yes, I kind of got a late start. For economy of life's time, we decided to roll the grandparent, parent experience all into one shot. Right now on my Kindle, I have a few books on how to be a better parent, none of which seem to offer the magic I need. I don't do much of anything these days except spend time with my family — pure joy. My husband and I took a trip to Las Vegas recently, so not my style but I actually enjoyed it.
While there, I had to look up the 7 deadly sins on the Internet to remind myself (couldn't remember wrath) and I have to say, that city pretty much has them covered. It was good to come home. I grew up in Houston and love it.
Thank you, Katie. An ice cream gift card is about to be winging its way to you.
Meantime, there may be good news on the cow front. In a recent post I wrote about 17-year-old Domonique, who is hoping to sell her cows Marci and Joli at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. She's looking for a breeder or a gentleman/woman rancher because she doesn't want to send Marci and Joli to the slaughterhouse.
Anyhoo, somebody called me the other day, expressing interest. The sale might happen Sunday, the last day of the livestock show. I'll keep you posted.
These gorgeous pictures were taken by the Chronicle's Michael Paulsen. At left, that's Domonique and Marci. At right, that's Joli, left, Domonique and Marci.


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The thieves had pulled a white van up to the back of the snazzy Chestnut Street restaurant Buddakan.
Were they stealing cash, or the giant golden Buddha? A stash of the popular "dip sum" doughnuts?
Nope. They were after the used cooking oil.
With biodiesel production increasing and prices for feedstocks - including used cooking oil - soaring, a waste product that restaurants once paid to get rid of is now a commodity targeted by thieves.
Greenworks Holdings, a group of companies that collect used cooking oil and convert it into biofuel, serves about 13,000 restaurants, mostly in the northeastern states.


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MORE Philadelphians are living in poverty today than a decade ago, and the city's median household income has plummeted, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates being released today.
This comes even as there are more city residents who have their high-school diploma or GED, and more who have a bachelor's degree.
The rise in poverty and the drop in income are especially stark among the city's African-American residents.
The new estimates tell "us that Philadelphia is a pretty harsh place to grow up," said Mariana Chilton, a professor at Drexel University's School of Public Health and a national expert on hunger. "While we've made enormous strides" in economic-development and higher-education efforts, "we somehow let the shadow of poverty exist in the city and expand."


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Topic:Rehab Guidelines/UD Protocol Following TKA
1. Mizner, RL et al. Quadriceps Strength and the Time Course of Functional Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty (2005).
2. Mintken, PE et al. Early Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Optimize Quadriceps Muscle Function Following Total Knee Arthroplast: A Case Report (2007).
3. Meier, W, et al. Total Knee Arthroplasty: Muscle Impairments, Functional Limitatinos and Recommended Rehabilitation (2008).
4. Mizner, RL, et al. Measuring Functional Improvement After Total Knee Arthroplasty Requires Both Performance-Based and Patient-Report Assessment - A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes (2010).
5. Mizner, RL, et al. Altered Loading During Walking and Sit to Stand is Affected by Quadriceps Weakness After Total Knee Arthroplasty (2005).
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What role have children (infants>adolescents) played in shaping cultures
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What role have institutions and discourses played in shaping children's
social realities (e.g., experiences, expectations, opportunities, actions),
emotions, identities, and such age-based cultural constructions as
childhood, girlhood, boyhood, and adolescence?
We invite papers and panels, workshops, roundtable discussions, multi-media
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history of children and youth in America and the world. Also encouraged are
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relationship of the history of children to youth studies) relating to the
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An adjective to describe Short, Chubby people or objects.
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another form of "fo sho"
Chris:Hey you want to chill tonight?Tim: Chodey!!
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another way to say chode
made as a noun
made as a noun
hey CHODEY!
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hi..i dont hav a chode
od uživatele oogurrl 10. červenec 2010
chubby boy, in which you would assume he has a chode.
Ew, he has a double chin... He's so chodey.
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A useless motorcycle salesman that alienates all he comes in contact with. One who profits from lies. Smells like a trucker's used roid cushion after a cross country run. Often confused for being gay, except that not even the gay community will except him.
I work with this guy at the bike shop who is a real chodey.
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our friend Joey's nickname/penis.
Hey Chodey, how is the old girthmister doing?
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Of or like unto a chode.
Of or like unto a chode.
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Time to take actionMay 07,2013
Time to take action
For the past few weeks I have been researching information on the issue of racial inequality. I never realized how bad it still is all over the world. Its happening everywhere from the United States to halfway across the world in South Africa, and this issue is just getting worse.
Did you know that on average, white households in the United States are 20 times wealthier than black and Hispanic households? And about one in nine black men age 20 to 34 is serving time in jail as well as one in 36 adult Hispanic men. Since 2000, the number of hate groups across the country has increased by 69 percent to where now there are currently 1,018 of them. South Africa until recently suffered legal segregation of the African population from the Europeans.
Now this is obviously an issue and there are groups trying to stop it, but they cant do it alone. The word needs to get out to people, so they can help, too. There are many things that you and all other everyday ordinary people can do. One important thing you can do is form a group in your community that focuses on trying to stop racial inequality. You could also make posters, put up signs, or just plain stick up for somebody who is being treated badly because of the color of their skin. You could make a website about why racial inequality is an issue and what people can do to stop it and tell people about it. For help or more information on how to get started, go to DoSomething.org or NAACP.org.
There are many things people can do to stop this problem, and we need to spread the word and let as many people know as possible. The way the world is now is not a good thing, and the only way it will change is if together we take action.
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DEAR ABBY: I'm a senior in high school and will be off to college next year. Like my older brother, I will be attending a school 30 minutes from home.
A problem he has, and that I'm worried about, is setting boundaries with our father. Dad works near the college and insists on stopping by to visit my brother at least once a week. If my brother refuses to meet with him, Dad guilt-trips him and gets angry.
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Family and friends will gather to honor the life of Robert Champion Monday evening.
One year ago, the Florida A&M drum major died after a hazing incident following the band's halftime performance at Florida Classic in Orlando.
On Saturday, the band did not perform at the annual game between FAMU and Bethune Cookman University.
Fans said it's time for FAMU to heal and move on.
"I don't support the hazing I think they need to deal with that properly, but I wanted to come and be a part of lifting them up and moving forward," said Sharon Mosley.
Attendance was down at this year's game.
Thousands of upper-deck seats at the Citrus Bowl were closed off. About 32,000 fans went to the game compared to 60,000 in years past.


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By Charles Chandler
For The Star-Ledger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Will Beatty's game to forget happened, at least in part, because of what he didn't forget.
One of the cardinal rules for all athletes is to put mistakes behind them and proceed to the next play unencumbered by the blunder.
In a rare admission in the NFL, Beatty, the Giants' left tackle, openly confessed that he failed miserably to keep a mistake from spoiling his play for the remainder of Sunday's 38-0 loss to the Carolina Panthers.
He said the game's sixth play did him in — Carolina defensive end Greg Hardy zooming past him to sack Giants quarterback Eli Manning. Before that, Hardy already had taken part in two tackles of running back David Wilson for a combined zero gain.
"That first sack took up way too much of my thoughts," Beatty said. "Looking back on it now, I see it was like a snowball effect of (me thinking): 'You messed up. You're messing up again. Fix it. Fix it.' "
Beatty's mental battles made him no match for Hardy, who finished with three of the Panthers' seven sacks of Manning. All of Hardy's sacks came in the game's first 17 minutes.
Beatty also was called for holding to nullify what would have been a touchdown, a 17-yard run by David Wilson early in the second quarter that could have cut Carolina's lead to 10-7.
Beatty was hardly the lone culprit in an atrocious performance by the Giants' offensive line. The lack of pass protection and run blocking was the No. 1 factor in the Giants managing just 23 total yards in the first half and 150 for the game.
"It's unacceptable no matter who you are, especially if you're the New York Giants," said center David Baas.
For a team once known for its punishing running game, these Giants are off to a stunningly poor start. They ran for 60 yards yesterday, which actually improved their season average to 44.3 yards per game, last in the NFL by far. The lack of production on the ground does nothing to help a struggling passing game in need of a balanced attack.
"You don't have to worry about us running the ball too much," right tackle Justin Pugh said sarcastically. "In the past three games, we (haven't) run the ball well, so I don't think (defenses) are really threatened by it.
"So we have to establish the run. And it starts up front," he added.
Manning, per usual, kindly soft-pedaled his line's struggles.
"We have to find ways to slow down the pass rush, whether it's running the ball, with screens or getting the ball out quicker," Manning said.
There was nothing fancy about the Panthers' pursuit of Manning. They mostly relied on a standard four-man rush by the defensive line, freeing the linebackers to assist an injury-riddled secondary in pass coverage.
Beatty, who received a contract extension in the offseason, took the worst beating, which he acknowledged has the potential to put his reputation at risk.
"I can't allow this game to be one where you say, ''This is the Will Beatty you're going up against,' '' Beatty said.
"It was a humbling day ... but I've got to make sure when people see this film... they don't think, 'Oh, this is him,' because this is not the way I like to play."


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> I am having trouble with an ntp program (chrony) in that if I write out a
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> sent. Thus the timestamp in the packet which is created just before the
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> output for that packet. -- this is only true sometimes.
> That this seems to be a problem in the network layer, is that if I run
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NTP is specifically designed to handle this problem. When it decides
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Michael Clarke never lost faith in born-again fast bowler Mitchell Johnson
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- January 03, 2013
MITCHELL Johnson's Test career seemed well and truly over after he broke down with a foot injury at the end of a horrible tour of South Africa just over a year ago.
The erratic left-armer had decided to change his run-up mid-Test and sprayed the ball all over the place.
Young guns Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson then burst on to the scene and made sure Johnson, 31, was bumped well down the pace pecking order.
Australian captain Michael Clarke, however, never lost faith in Johnson.
Maybe it's a tattoo thing.
Clarke was delighted when Johnson returned from a year in Test exile to take six wickets against South Africa in Perth.
He was pleased with his man-of-the-match performance last week in Melbourne.
Now he's hardly surprised Johnson will bring up his 50th Test in Sydney today.
"I've always known how much talent he's had either with the bat or the ball.
"He's one of the greatest athletes I've seen play cricket. Give him a footy, try and beat him in a race, he's a very good athlete.
"I think Mitch's time away from the game freshened his body and also freshened his mind.
"He's as hungry as he's ever been. He feels like he's back bowling and batting very well.
"He needs to perform like a senior player, like he has since coming back into the team. I think Mitch is probably enjoying a leadership role around the group.
"He's back in good form, but if ask Mitch I'm sure he'd say he can get better. With the right attitude, you go a long way to playing your best cricket and trying to improve.
"We left him out in Hobart and he had the right attitude. He made it clear he wanted to be back full-time playing for Australia in all forms of the game."
Johnson brought up 200 Test wickets in Melbourne against Sri Lanka in a devastating display, breaking the thumb of Prasanna Jayawardene, then busting the finger of dangerman Kumar Sangakkara.
According to former Test great and recently inducted ICC Hall of Famer Glenn McGrath, 200 wickets was the benchmark for a "good quality Test bowler".
Another Test great, Steve Waugh, was glad to see Johnson elevated to No.7 in the batting order.
After all, Johnson tonked an unbeaten 92 during the Boxing Day Test, only to be denied a ton because of a lack of batting partners.
"He has a really good technique, hits the ball sweetly and just has to learn how to play a long innings with the concentration that is required," Waugh said.
"He'll handle No.7 no problems -- I could even see him open the batting in the shorter form of the game."
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Quadrilateral Interpolation, Part 1
In computer graphics we build models out of triangles, and we interpolate texture coordinates (and other vertex attributes) across surfaces using a method appropriate for triangles: linear interpolation, which allows each triangle in 3D model space to be mapped to an arbitrary triangle in texture space. While linear interpolation works well most of the time, there are situations in which it doesn't suit our needs—for example, when mapping a square texture to a quadrilateral: using linear interpolation on each of the quad's two triangles produces an ugly seam. In this article series, I'm going to talk about interpolation methods that allow arbitrary convex quadrilaterals to be texture-mapped without a seam along the diagonal.
First of all, what's the problem with quads and the usual linear UV interpolation? Let me illustrate, with the help of this brick from CgTextures:
Linear interpolation allows for arbitrary affine transforms to be applied to a texture image. This includes any combination of translation, scaling, rotation, and shearing:
As you can see, these transforms work perfectly well on a quad; you can't see the seam between the two triangles. However, if I move one of the quad's verts so that it's no longer a parallelogram, you can see the seam:
This happened because the triangles are still congruent in UV space (each covers half the texture, as before), but they are no longer congruent in model space. The affine transforms for the two triangles are no longer equal; although the UV mapping is still continuous along the seam, its derivatives (the tangent and bitangent vectors) are discontinuous there, resulting in ugliness.
Ordinarily, when building irregularly-shaped geometry like this, you wouldn't assign UVs this way. For example, a level designer creating an irregularly-shaped wall piece would apply a single UV projection to the whole wall, giving all the triangles the same affine transform. This implies that not all of the texture is seen: it's clipped and cropped so the shape of the mesh in UV space matches its shape in model space, preventing seams.
But what if we really do want to get a texture onto an arbitrary (convex) quadrilateral, without cropping out part of it?
Affine transforms allow arbitrary triangle-to-triangle mappings: you can create an affine mapping between any two triangles, no matter how different their shapes. This is just what happens when you apply a texture to a triangle: by setting up UVs, you implicitly create an affine map between model space and UV space. When rendering, the rasterizer evaluates this mapping to find the appropriate texture sample point for each pixel.
Geometrically, as long as the quad remains a parallelogram, the affine transforms for its two triangles are equal and you can't see the seam. But when the quad isn't a parallelogram, affine transforms and linear interpolation cannot smoothly map the whole texture to the quad.
To solve this problem, we must leave the world of linear interpolation and affine transforms behind! There are more-sophisticated interpolation methods that can help here, each with its own pros and cons. In this article I'm going to talk about one in particular, called projective interpolation. Later articles in this series will cover alternative methods.
Projective Interpolation
Just as linear interpolation is based on affine transforms, projective interpolation is based on the family of projective transforms. These transforms are very familiar in 3D graphics: they're exactly the same ones used to map a 3D scene onto a 2D image, simulating perspective! But how can this help us with interpolation?
The intuition is that if you have a 3D scene consisting of a single quad, as you move the camera around and look at it from different positions, its projected shape on the 2D screen will be, in general, a different quad. In fact, it turns out you can map any convex quad to any other convex quad this way, by finding an appropriate camera setup.
Moreover, we know how to interpolate UVs in such a way that a 3D quad doesn't show a seam when it's projected to the 2D screen; such perspective-correct interpolation is done all the time. This suggests that we should be able to texture-map a quad without a seam by using the same math used for perspective-correct interpolation. And indeed this works:
The entire texture is now warped to the irregular shape of the quad, with no visible seam!
However, this image is a little odd: it doesn't really look like a 2D quad anymore. It actually looks a lot like a wall in a 3D engine, with the camera turned to the side so that the wall recedes into the distance. That's the nature of projective interpolation. Because it uses the same math that's involved in 3D-to-2D perspective, this method gives results that tend to look like a 3D scene, even though the quad is completely 2D.
With that caveat in mind, here's how you implement projective interpolation.
It's well-known that to do perspective-correct interpolation for a triangle, you must calculate u/z, v/z, and 1/z at each vertex, interpolate those linearly in screen space, then calculate u = (u/z) / (1/z) and v = (v/z) / (1/z) at each pixel. GPU rasterizers do this automatically, behind the scenes, for every interpolated attribute. We use the same idea here: our vertex shader will output uq, vq, and q, the GPU will interpolate those quantities linearly in model space, then we'll divide by 'q' at each pixel. Here, 'q' is a per-vertex value that plays the role of 1/z. However, this 'q' will be determined by the shape of the quadrilateral. It's a made-up "depth" chosen to give the right projective transform to eliminate the seam.
The vertex shader and pixel shader for projective interpolation will look something like this:
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float4x4 g_matLocalToClip; Texture2D g_texColor; SamplerState g_ss; struct VertexData { float3 pos : POSITION; float3 uvq : TEXCOORD0; }; void Vs ( VertexData vtx, out float3 uvq : TEXCOORD0, out float4 posClip : SV_Position) { posClip = mul(float4(vtx.pos, 1.0), g_matLocalToClip); uvq = vtx.uvq; } void Ps ( float3 uvq : TEXCOORD0, out half4 o_rgba : SV_Target) { o_rgba = g_texColor.Sample(g_ss, uvq.xy / uvq.z); }
Here, the important parts are: (a) the UVs are float3 instead of the usual float2, with 'q' in the third component; and (b) the pixel shader divides by 'q' before sampling the texture. The uvq values are precomputed and stored in the vertex data, so the vertex shader just passes them through.
The real trick here is how to calculate the right 'q' value for each vertex of the quad. This is fairly subtle—at least, it took me awhile to work it out!—and I'll spare you the derivation. To find the 'q's, first find the intersection point of the two diagonals of the quad (e.g., intersect one diagonal with the plane defined by the other diagonal and the quad's normal vector), and calculate the distances from this point to each of the four vertices. I'll call those distances d0…d3:
Then, each 'q' is computed using the 'd's for that vertex and the opposite one, as follows: \[ uvq_i = \mathtt{float3}(u_i, v_i, 1) \times \frac{d_i + d_{i+2}}{d_{i+2}} \qquad (i = 0 \ldots 3) \] Store those values in your vertex data, and you'll have projective interpolation!
Projective interpolation does the job we set out to do—it maps a texture smoothly onto an arbitrary convex quad. However, there are some potentially-problematic oddities with this method. As we saw above, it can generate results that 3D even when they're not supposed to. This is related to how projective interpolation alters the spacing of points along a line nonuniformly, as can be seen by applying the interpolation to a grid:
The vertical grid lines, which are evenly spaced in the texture, are no longer evenly spaced after interpolation; they're closer together at one end of the quad and farther apart at the other. Again, this is a consequence of "perspective" scaling things down when they're "farther" from the camera. Unfortunately, this nonuniform spacing is completely dependent on the shape of the quad, and won't generally match when two quads share an edge:
This is a lot like the original problem we were trying to solve: two adjoining triangles with different shapes would have different affine transforms, producing a seam. Here, two adjoining quads with different shapes have different projective transforms, producing a seam. If you're trying to use this in a situation where you have multiple quads that need to join smoothly, this problem is pretty much a deal-breaker for projective interpolation.
In future installments of this series, I'll talk about alternatives to projective interpolation that can also smoothly map a texture onto a quad, but with different features and caveats.
27 comments on "Quadrilateral Interpolation, Part 1"
May 29, 2012
Thanks for the nice idea, Nathan!
I'm trying to use quadrilateral interpolation for trail rendering but, obviously, this approach would fail as one will notice clearly C0-discontinuities along the quads edges instead of C1-discontinuities along the quads edges and diagonals. Which parameterization will solve this issue?
June 1, 2012
Hmm, perhaps what you really want is some sort of spline, like a quadratic Bezier that would let you set matching tangents at each edge? It's an interesting problem! IIRC, in Infamous 2 our trail rendering just tessellated very finely – like 10 polygons per frame or something ridiculous like that. :) It's easy, but it would be nice to figure out how to do that in the shader instead of by adding geometry!
June 2, 2012
I don't think that a Bezier spline would solve the problem, as in points where it does not match the edge of the polygon you won't map value 1 to the edge, as it is mapped to the spline (if I understood what you meant).
Of course, overtesselation solved the problem, but obviously we want to keep polycount fixed :)
December 2, 2012
Can't one just use the keyword "noperspective" in the shader?
May 2, 2013
Fei Yang, nice you tried it with OpenGL. For me this was obvious, since the shader did exactly what homogenous coordinates are handled – thats why there is a glTexCoord4f in OpenGL :) I already had tougths weather there could be a Z in glTexCoord4f(u,v,Z,q) as a correction for the 'perspective distortion' within the 2D-quads… but I did not try it without Shaders.
May 9, 2013
Hi recond, I'll try to write up something on the derivation of the formula but it may take me a few days as I'm quite busy at the moment. The basic idea is to reduce it to a one-dimensional problem. You can imagine pivoting the quad about its diagonal in 3D homogeneous space; that lets you set the q-values for two opposite corners while leaving the other two corners fixed. Do this for both diagonals, and the only fixed point is the point where they meet.
As for OpenGL, as far as I know it should be perfectly applicable. As Fei Yang pointed out, OpenGL even supports this in the fixed-function mode, using glTexCoord4f.
October 7, 2013
nice idea how to calculate 'q'. I'm looking for non-perspective solution, did you try to figure out formula for 'q' in this case? Maybe i have to use 'r' and use it in shader like this: o_rgba = g_texColor.Sample(g_ss, float2(uvrq.x / uvrq.r, uvrq.y / uvrq.q)); but i'm still failing. Any help please?
October 7, 2013
by non-perspective i mean something like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/V2KCQ.jpg , but this trapeziod i can solve, the problem starts when i'd like to texturing general quadrilateral (convex) where simply texture is uniformly distributed along each edge. hope i describe my problem better (english is not my native lang.)
October 7, 2013
Ahh, I see. Yes, that's what bilinear interpolation does (different thing from bilinear texture filtering). I'm not sure how to implement bilinear UV interpolation in a shader, but it would be interesting to figure out. Paul Heckbert's master's thesis has some more about this, although not in a shader-ready form.
August 4, 2014
Bruno, they're just the usual UVs that you always use for texture mapping. If you want to map the whole texture to the quad, they'd be (0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1) and (0, 1). You can of course map some other region as well.
fakenerd, q is calculated like that because that's what's necessary to produce the desired effect. :) The derivation is just a bunch of nasty algebra, but it can be reduced to a 1D problem along each diagonal, which is why the solution takes the form it does.
November 8, 2014
Hello, Nathan!
Thank you very, very much for perfect idea! This calculation works exactly as is needed for me. Like for quas, for me is necessary to interpolate using constant vertical step. I did this very simple: remove the u coord from calculation :-)
2 quas,
Solution for constant vertical step is very simple: do not prepare the u texture coord! Just use the following calculations in main application:
vq = vec2(vi,1) * ((di+di2) / di2);
uvq = vec3(u, vq.x, vq.y);
And pass the u coord from vertex shader to fragment shader unchanged (varying vec3 TexCoord;). In the fragment shader use the following code:
vec2 uv;
uv.x = TexCoord.x;
uv.y = TexCoord.y/TexCoord.z;
gl_FragColor = texture2D(BaseTexture, uv);
Here are my results:
Input texture
Trapezoid texturing without corrections
Perspective correction by Nathan Reed
Perspective correction with constant vertical step
May 13, 2016
I know this is an old blog post but I had a go at implementing the Bilinear Interpolation mentioned in the article you linked to above.
Here's my take on it (C# / XNA)
Finding this post set my on my way – thanks :-)


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Still rejoicing over last month's release of her sister, journalist Laura Ling, from North Korean captivity, TV host Lisa Ling has another cause for celebration: her friend Diane's Sawyer's appointment to the anchor job of ABC World News Tonight come January 2010, as the network announced this week.
"Finally!" writes Ling, 36, on Oprah.com, the Web site of Oprah Winfrey.
But Ling's elation isn't only professional, it's personal. "Recently, during my sister's detainment, Diane not only reached out, but took time out of her chaotic schedule to help our family," says Ling. "She made calls and took meetings on our behalf for which we will be forever grateful."
Tracking her relationship with Sawyer, 63, Ling says the two met about 10 years ago, when the younger journalist was starting out and encountering other "high-profile news talents [who] were less than cordial. I won't name names, but as a young reporter I recall a number of reporters treating me terribly dismissively."
Not so Sawyer. "She was kind, gracious and, most importantly, she treated me with respect," says Ling. "I have never forgotten it."
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Liverpool, UK - FabulaTech, one of the leading software developement companies specializing in device driver development and virtualization solutions announced launch of a newly updated version of Sound over RDP 1.2.1 with minor bug fixes.
Sound over RDP is a nifty sound virtualization tool which was built specifically to enable remote sound from the local machine to the remote computer. Many applications use sound for various forms of feedback such as softphones, Skype, NetMeeting, AIM, ICQ and many others. Sound over RDP extends standard RDP functionality and delivers full high-resolution low-latency remote audio playback. With the help of this program one can easily access data of a sound input device plugged into the local machine while working in remote Windows session.
"The program is really simple to handle", comments Alan Rourke, one of the senior software developers. "You just need a working sound device, install the Workstation on the computer to which the device is physically connected and the Server side on the remote server from which you need to access your device. That's all".
Sound over RDP highlights:
-Support for input sound devices such as microphones
-Multichannel mixer
-Works with Windows Remote Desktop Connection client
-Virtual Machine compatible
For more features please visit program's homepage at http://www.sound-over-rdp.com or download the update version directly at http://www.sound-over-rdp.com/sound-over-rdp.zip with the free 15-day trial.
Sound over RDP solution is ideal for people working with voice messengers in remote sessions, call centers, thin clients' users, everyone who wants to use two-way sound over RDP protocol.
Program's functionality can be easily integrated into your application. So it allows terminal server users to access local headsets and microphones in remote Windows session.
About FabulaTech
FabulaTech is a software development company. Established in 2000, FabulaTech specializes in device driver development, application development and systems internals programming for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Embedded operating systems. FabulaTech embraces the ideal of providing personalized service with the customer's needs in mind, all the time.
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