Feuding physicists and the bitter battle over the swirls in 'The Starry Night'

A team of scientists sparked a heated debate over whether Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night depicts turbulence, a complex physical phenomenon.

Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

Ultrafast fluorescence pulse technique enables imaging of individual trapped atoms

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

Predictive 'mismatch' leads to novel carbon capture method

When experimental results don't match scientists' predictions, it's usually assumed that the predictions were wrong. But new ...
Ohio University

Physics & Astronomy Department

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A physics-informed, vision-based method to reconstruct all deformation modes in slender bodies

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating (interpolating and smoothing) the shape (pose and the six modes of deformation) of a slender flexible body from multiple camera ...