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Abstract: Conventional Chinese calligraphy robots often suffer from the limited sizes of predefined font databases, which prevent the robots from writing new characters. This paper presents a robotic ...

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An adventurer enlists his disapproving sister (Natalie Portman) in this Guy Ritchie movie with a hint of Indiana Jones. By Glenn Kenny A newly engaged Jew and gentile plan to introduce their ...

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The award ceremony of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” Global Youth Design Contest 2018 was held at the 77 Theatre in Beijing on September 28, 2018. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...

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