Sentences with phrase «of deformable»
Aside from all the landscapes needing to be created in our own in - house landscape editor (due to the nature of the deformable 3D landscape), the fact that the game has a third dimension and was powered by a highly flexible scripting system meant we could do some really different things that we really couldn't do in 2D with 2D worms and 2D landscapes.
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Head of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
A test version of the deformable wing designed by the MIT and NASA researchers is shown undergoing its twisting motions, which could replace the need for separate, hinged panels for controlling a plane's motion.
Not exact matches
Each of the two main components — the iris - like liquids and the deformable lens — can be designed to compensate for any aberrations in the other, resulting in better optical quality than would be expected if you were to consider the two components separately, Zappe said.
In attacking the air - blurred starlight, his weapon of choice will be a run - of - the - mill adaptive optics system augmented by another more «extreme» version that uses 2,000 computer - controlled actuators to correct atmospheric distortions by flexing a deformable mirror more than 3,600 times per second.
The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build deformable surgical robots.
The secondary mirrors are deformable so that they can correct for the distortions of light caused by ripples in the atmosphere.
The only way to plug the leaks is to make a practically perfect coronagraph, then to feed it with a beam of starlight shaped to similar perfection both by deformable mirrors as well as by the extremely precise and stable pointing of a telescope.
Previous theories of how this heat is generated within Io treated the moon as a solid but deformable object, somewhat like clay.
These soft robots, made of soft artificial muscle and ultrathin deformable sensors and actuators, have significant advantages over the traditional rigid robots used for automation and other physical tasks.
Modern observatories use «adaptive optics» — computer - controlled deformable mirrors that change shape thousands of times per second — to cancel out the worst effects of atmospheric turbulence on starlight.
The adhesive film can stick to highly deformable regions of the body, such as the knee and elbow, and maintain its hold even after 100 bending cycles.
«Copolymers are soft, stretchable and deformable,» said Ned Thomas, Rice's Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry.
Normal red blood cells are about 8 microns in size, but can circulate in the microvascular system with a diameter of 1 to 2 microns because they are flexible, deformable and durable.
At this wavelength, the wavefront control system (assumed here to use 64 x 64 actuator deformable mirrors) offers a larger high contrast field of view, allowing Saturn to be imaged in reflected light.
The left side of the plot shows the corresponding RMS wavefront error for a coronagraph using a 64 × 64 element deformable mirror.
Bozhi Tian, who led one of the University of Chicago research groups, said the particles can establish unique biointerfaces on cell membranes, because they are deformable but can still yield a local electrical effect.
Such systems have multiple wavefront sensors of different types, and usually multiple deformable mirrors (DMs).
At the heart of the AO system is a six - inch - wide deformable mirror that changes its shape up to 2,000 times per second to cancel out atmospheric distortion; the resulting images are therefore ten times sharper than previous images taken with the telescopes.
A six - inch diameter deformable mirror with 349 actuators is then used to correct for these aberrations at a rate of 1,000 times per second, effectively taking the twinkle out of the stars and providing near - perfect detail for planets, stars and galaxies.
«Although tip - tilt mounts for deformable mirrors have been successfully demonstrated before,» said Ellerbroek, «the TMT design is exceptional in terms of the size of the mirror, the mass of the mirror, and the 3,000 electrical connections that are attached to the back of the mirror structure.»
Topology is the study of infinitely deformable objects.
The AO component, known as the Tip - Tilt Stage, will work in tandem with a deformable mirror to correct for the blurring of Earth's atmosphere.
plastic Any of a series of materials that are easily deformable; or synthetic materials that have been made from polymers (long strings of some building - block molecule) that tend to be lightweight, inexpensive and resistant to degradation.
Carbon fiber's ability to tolerate a wide range of temperatures without becoming brittle or deformable depends not on the carbon itself but on the epoxy that surrounds it — and wheelmakers like Carbon Revolution have put a lot of science into their secret sauce, including the plasma coating inside the wheel to protect the epoxy from brake heat.
Carbon fiber's ability to tolerate a wide range of temperatures without becoming brittle or deformable depends not on the carbon itself but on the epoxy that surrounds it.
In the moderate overlap front test, a fast - moving vehicle strikes a deformable barrier made of aluminum honeycomb that crushes like a real car would in a crash.
The new test will augment the agency's existing frontal test, which crashes a car at 40 mph against a deformable barrier that overlaps 40 % of the front.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a Maxima with the structural and airbag modifications in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.
The changed vehicle mix and high risks to occupants of side - struck vehicles when the striking vehicles are SUVs or pickups led the Institute to modify the moving deformable barrier used in the federal test so the front end represents the geometry of a typical SUV or pickup.
This moving deformable barrier was developed in the early 1980s, when cars represented most of the vehicles on the road.
In these tests, an impactor with a deformable front end representing the front of a car is used to strike the sides of the vehicles being assessed.
The moving deformable barrier that strikes the test vehicle weighs 3,300 pounds and has a front end shaped to simulate the typical front end of a pickup or SUV.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a 1999 ML 320 with the structural changes in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a GS 400 with the structural changes in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.
In Euro NCAP's test, a deformable barrier is mounted on a trolley and is driven at 50km / h into the side of the stationary test vehicle at right angles.
Like the FMVSS 214 barrier, its face is deformable to represent the crushable front end of a striking vehicle.
Unlike the moderate overlap frontal crash the IIHS had been performing for years, in which 40 percent of the front of the car contacts a deformable (crushable) barrier, in this new test only 25 percent of the car's frontal crash area — the driver's corner — hits a barrier and this one does not squish.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the CTS in two 40 mph frontal offset crash tests into deformable barriers.
In the Institute's 40 mph offset frontal test, now called a moderate overlap frontal test, 40 percent of the total width of a vehicle strikes a deformable barrier on the driver side.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Liberty in two 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.
The impact takes place at 64kph, 40 % of the width of the car striking a deformable barrier.
Two full - scale crash tests are done: a full - width frontal impact at 50km / h against a deformable element; and a side impact test, also at 50km / h, in which a deformable barrier is driven into the side of the vehicle.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Sienna in two 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.
NHTSA crashes vehicles into solid barriers at 35 mph for the frontal test and rams a deformable barrier into the sides of vehicles at 38.5 mph for the side - impact test.
In the Institute test, a moving deformable barrier strikes the driver side of a passenger vehicle at 31 mph.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a 2001 RAV4 with the initial structural and airbag modifications in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.
«Inside IIHS: Side testing» shows the Institute's moving deformable side impact crash test barrier and the dummies used in the side test, and explains the evolution of side crash protection.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of the Grand Caravan in three 40 mph moderate overlap frontal crash tests into deformable barriers.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a Fusion with the added part in a 40 mph frontal offset crash test into a deformable barrier.