Autonomous navigation capabilities for spacecraft are useful for decreasing operational costs, increasing the scope of missions, and increasing the robustness of spacecraft. This dissertation aims to present and fully ...

When displaying 3D surfaces onto computer screens, additional information is often mapped onto the surface to enhance the quality of the rendering. Surface parameterization generates a correspondence, or mapping, between ...

The increase in global environmental concerns as well as advancement of computational tools and methods have had significant impacts on the way in which buildings are being designed. Building professionals are increasingly ...

This thesis develops the method of using textures projected from the perspective of a projection camera, in combination with two-dimensional paintings and threedimensional models, to create digital environments. Past uses ...

Digital animators will save vast amounts of project time by starting with a completed skeleton and some base animations. This result can be accomplished with Web 2.0 technologies by creating a repository of skeletons and ...

Animé, a style of Japanese animation, has begun to evolve into more than a simple animation. The stories found in animé have reached a level of complexity similar to traditional cinema. However, lighting in animé, has ...

The World Wide Web contains rich collections of digital materials that can be used in education and learning settings. The collaborative authoring prototype of Walden's Paths targets two groups of users: educators and ...

During the last two centuries many methods have been proposed to solve the angles-only initial orbit determination problem. As this problem continues to be relevant as an initial estimate is needed before high accuracy ...

We introduce an efficient method to support generation of geometric winding paths on parametric shapes. Filament winding is a technology for producing composite materials by winding resin-infused fibers around the underlying ...

We present a method for constructing almost-everywhere curvature-continuous curves that interpolate a list of control points and have local maxima of curvature only at the control points. Our premise is that salient features ...