© Claire Darraud award 16 2013, A year at the CNRS CO MPUTER GRAPHICS To improve the realism of virtual characters, researchers have developed a method for simulating skin folds at the joints. Their technique, which is arousing a great deal of interest among animation graphics designers, successfully makes use of theoretical research on the composition of implicit surfaces, a little-known model for the representation of three-dimensional surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics July 2013 1 3 1. The vortices on soap bubbles can be used to model atmospheric flow. 2. NASA's Curiosity rover exploring Mars after landing on the Red Planet in August 2012. 3. This skin simulation method was demonstrated at SIGGRAPH, the most prestigious conference on computer graphics, held in July 2013 in California (US). 4. The measuring system used during the OVIDE oceanographic campaigns. © CNRS Photothèque/LOMA / Cyril Frésillon THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2013 GIVES PRIDE OF PLACE TO THE HIGGS BOSON Awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for their theoretical discovery of a mechanism that explains the origin of the mass o f fundamental particles, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 also indirectly recognizes the experimental physicists, including hundreds of CNRS and CEA researchers, whose work helped to confirm this hypothesis. The existence of the particle associated with this mechanism, the Higgs boson, was confirmed in July 2012 by experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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