Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr college, 1940. / Bibliographical footnotes.

Inaug.-diss.--Halle. / Vita. Imprint stamped on t.p.: Dresden, Kommissions-verlag: Risse-verlag. "Notae et index librorum quibus usus sum": p. [5]-6.

Königsberg, Phil. Diss. v. 14. Febr. 1910, Ref. Rossbach.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-192).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, April 2010. / Electronic version restricted until 3rd May 2015.

Inaugural dissertation--Halle. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-192).

At the turn of the Century, in the rural areas of the deep south, a small group of fundamentalists adopted the practice of confirming their faith by handling venomous snakes. Today the cult has spread to at least twelve different States, despite the fact that since 1947 snake handling has been prohibited by law in all states except one. The cult-members, however, regard the legislation as being a violation of their fundamental right to worship as they please. Fatalities occur, the leaders spend time in prison, but still the cult flourishes, with various congregations quite openly flouting the law. In addition to handling snakes, the cultists also drink poison and handle fire, according to their interpretation of the Bible.

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Current real time grass implementations are ill-suited for the task of rendering short lawns effectively and cheaply. We present a method using dynamic texture creation. We represent a patch of grass by a special bitmap termed the "Grass Source Map". Much the same way height maps supply the information used to generate a terrain, this map effectively supplies the blueprints for building the geometry we use for a square patch of lawn. We propose a method for building, sorting and rendering the geometry this map represents using vertex shaders. Instead of rendering the geometry to our scene however, we render to an off screen target surface, producing a tiling 2D texture termed the "Grass Map.” This texture map is mapped over an arbitrary terrain, giving the illusion that countless blades of grass are being rendered. Our method combines the visual quality of rendering the correct geometric orientation and lighting of individual grass blades, while maintaining the low overhead of texture tiling. We thus provide a novel grass rendering option where we render a small number of grass blades at a fixed cost, and reuse that work to build an effective grass simulation.