News tagged with dimensional objects
New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets
Jul 08, 2009 |
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In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.
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Scientists study infant perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2007 |
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U.S. medical scientists have determined infants are able to detect at least some three-dimensional images.
Researchers discover second depth-perception method in brain
Mar 16, 2008 |
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It's common knowledge that humans and other animals are able to visually judge depth because we have two eyes and the brain compares the images from each. But we can also judge depth with only one eye, and scientists have ...
3-D brain centers pinpointed
Aug 01, 2007 |
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In studies with monkeys, researchers have identified in detail the brain regions responsible for the unique ability of primates, including humans, to process visual 3D shapes to guide their sophisticated manipulation of objects.
History in 3D
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional computer graphics is moving into museums. Works of art are being digitally archived in 3D, simplifying research into related artifacts and providing the public with fascinating ...
Chern numbers of algebraic varieties
Jun 10, 2009 |
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A problem at the interface of two mathematical areas, topology and algebraic geometry, that was formulated by Friedrich Hirzebruch, had resisted all attempts at a solution for more than 50 years. The problem concerns the ...
Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension
Jul 06, 2009 |
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From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...
Stanford builds a better virtual world, one tree (or millions) at a time
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Jan 07, 2008 |
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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D trees—millions of them. Now he wants to give them away.
Nanoimaging in 3-D
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...
How we see objects in depth: The brain's code for 3-D structure
Oct 27, 2008 |
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A team of Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists has discovered patterns of brain activity that may underlie our remarkable ability to see and understand the three-dimensional structure of objects.
Folding silicone: building on the microscale
Apr 25, 2007 |
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“With classical tools, it is hard to manipulate something so tiny as on the microscale or the nanoscale,” Charlotte Py tells PhysOrg.com. “But here we show how you can use a small drop of water as a micro- ...
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