When mathematics meets aesthetics: Tessellations as a precise tool for solving complex problems

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...
Raleigh News & Observer

Triangle companies rely on H-1B visas to hire workers. Here’s a look at their use.

The Raleigh area ranks No. 4 as that fastest-growing city in the country and Charlotte is No. 8, according to a report by the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise that’s part of UNC Kenan-Flagler ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

North Carolina high school football schedule for Week 5, including every WNC game

Week 5 of the North Carolina football season brings the arrival of conference play for most teams, while a few are still wrapping up the nonconerence slate. Here is the NCHSAA football 2025 season ...
IEEE

HTD: A Hybrid Triangle Descriptor Combining Geometry and Intensity Information for 3D Loop Detection

Abstract: Loop detection is essential for a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system. For LiDAR SLAM, most of existing methods only extract geometrically-based features to search loops, ...
GitHub

o3d.geometry.VoxelGrid.create_from_triangle_mesh_within_bounds Segmentation fault (core dumped) #7338

Additional context The crash happens regardless of voxel_size (tested with 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/2). The crash persists even after mesh cleanup (remove_duplicated_vertices, remove_degenerate_triangles, ...

Extra Seasoning: UNC Hasn’t Escaped the Shadow of “Triangle Good”

Days before North Carolina was to take on NC State on Nov. 30, 2024, the school fired Mack Brown, the football program’s winningest coach. A few weeks later, Bi ...

Q&A: How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently ...
The Herald SC

Friday’s rewind: How the Sweet 16 fared, NC scores, next week’s schedule

A few thoughts from a busy Week 7 of the high school football season Friday. 1) Lake Norman made a big statement with a 35-0 win over previously unbeaten Statesville. The Wildcats ended a two-game ...