Smoke-water treatment of seeds, an ancient technique for increasing seed vigor.

Germination is an essential phenomenon in the life cycle of plants, and a variety of external and internal factors influence it. Fire and the produced smoke have been vital environmental stimulants for the germination of seeds in many plant species, like Leucospermum cordifolium and Serruria florida. These plants do not germinate at all if fire and smoke are not present.

Improving adaptive display with temporally adaptive rendering.

Making computer imagery more responsive and realistic is one of the most basic goals of graphics researchers, and adaptive display is one of the primary means for achieving it. While previous displays have achieved a spatial adaptivity, our research focuses on achieving temporal adaptivity--sampling some regions not only more densely, but also more often. We use closed loop feedback to guide sampling to image regions that change significantly over space or time.