A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

While educators across the country received warm wishes from their students, many people are grappling with a pressing ...

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To distinguish an Earth-like planet from its star at a distance of roughly 30 light-years, a space telescope must collect light across about 20 meters. Our largest space observatory, the James Webb ...

Abstract: The polar coordinate system fast time-domain algorithm is more efficient than the original back-projection (BP) algorithm. However, it still has complex coordinate transformation and 2-D ...

rotationMatrix Defines the orientation of the coordinate frame, from the origin. 3-by-3 orthogonal matrix. Default is zero rotation, i.e., eye(3). translationVector Defines the position of coordinate ...

Polar coordinates are an alternative coordinate system to the commonly used Cartesian (rectangular) coordinates. They are particularly useful in situations where data can be more easily represented ...

Needs for real-time interactive visualization of 3D Tiles for massive 3D content on the web-based virtual globe is rapidly increasing, and to achieve this goal, 3D Tiles needs to be correctly ...

Manufacturers use a variety of robots in their operations, each with its own specific capabilities and functions. We’re discussing some of the most common types of robots used in manufacturing, and ...