The Flash program makes animation files even smaller by using geometric descriptions of shapes in motion to determine what is displayed, rather than a series of stills playing in rapid succession.
Axial corneal topography measures all curvatures relative to the corneal topography axis and provides a global description of shape.
Since curvature is a mathematically complete description of shape, these plots allow for the quick assessment of the severity of blebbing in a population of nuclei.
Results: Three main open-source software components were developed: (i) a database with web-interface; (ii) a modeling client for 3D + time visualization and parametric description of shape and motion; and (iii) open data formats for semantic characterization of models and annotations.
That is, querying for all 'elongate' jaws, for example, would return jaws of all shapes because all descriptions of jaw shape variation are annotated to the high level term shape.
However, the resulting representation only describes the appearance of image patches as well as image noise, and lacks a semantic description of shapes — useful, e.g., for grasping, robotic control, planning.
Sliding semilandmarks (Bookstein 1997) make possible the description of shapes combining curves and classic homologous landmarks on the same object, and the incorporation of these data has become standard in the field of morphometrics (Zimmerman et al. 2009; Arnegard et al. 2010).
We therefore provide figure 4, which displays pictorial descriptions of the shape differences that are associated with each RW axis using pair-wise comparisons of pomacentrid species whose head shapes are strongly differentiated by one axis, but which are otherwise similar (i.e., they have similar scores on all other RW axes).
This includes the West, where descriptions of human shape-changers, who changed shape yet remained human, were part of folklore in both Christian and Jewish traditions.
