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CHI
1993
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Synthetic synesthesia: mixing sound with color
An interface is described that uses color and spatial relations to provide an intuitive interface for sound manipulation. A simple geometric shape, called the Geometric Sound Mixe...
Kristinn R. Thórisson, Karen Donoghue
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A spreadsheet-based user interface for managing plural relationships in structured data
A key feature of relational database applications is managing plural relationships—one-to-many and many-to-many— between entities. However, since it is often infeasible to ado...
Eirik Bakke, David R. Karger, Rob Miller
SMA
2003
ACM
120views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Three-dimensional halfspace constructive solid geometry tree construction from implicit boundary representations
This paper presents a new method to compute constructive solid geometry (CSG) tree representations of an object whose faces consist of planar and non-planar surfaces. The algorith...
Suzanne F. Buchele, Richard H. Crawford
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
WEBDB
2000
Springer
136views Database» more  WEBDB 2000»
15 years 3 months ago
An Optimization Technique for Answering Regular Path Queries
Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in data integration, data warehousing and query optimization. Query rewriting in relational databases i...
Gösta Grahne, Alex Thomo