Posts Tagged ‘3-D’
Science & Technology - Jun 18, 2010 10:41 - 2 Comments
Radiohead video features real-time, 3-D
IOWA STATE (US)—A high-resolution, 3-D imaging system can project perfect facsimiles of faces on a screen in real time. The result is an image that looks like a moving mask, digitally and exactly executed. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 17, 2010 11:06 - 1 Comment
3-D culture makes cells feel at home
RICE (US)—Researchers have developed a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures. The technological leap from the flat petri dish could save millions of dollars in drug-testing costs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 3, 2010 11:53 - 0 Comments
‘Killer’ algae’s dark side
U. MINNESOTA (US)—A toxic alga, once thought to be a helpless, sun-loving microbe, is really a vicious, venom-producing predator responsible for massive fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 23, 2009 16:46 - 0 Comments
3-D channels pave way for man-made organs
TEXAS A&M (US)—The creation of a network of microchannels could advance the field of tissue engineering by serving as a three-dimensional vasculature to support construction of tissue, include organs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 17, 2009 15:57 - 2 Comments
Real-time action in a virtual world
U. ILLINOIS (US)—A new digital system allows people in different locations to interact in real time in a shared virtual space. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 3, 2009 13:25 - 0 Comments
Missing cell ‘cap’ signals sickness
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—Wearing a cap can be much more than a fashion statement. In mammal cells, it’s an indication of good health. A bundled cap of thread-like fibers holds a healthy cell’s nucleus in place, researchers have found. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 16, 2009 12:38 - 2 Comments
Doctors take 3-D tour before surgery
IOWA STATE (US)—James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen, and zipped through a patient’s chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. Oliver was using new software that allows doctors to take an accurate, 3-D tour of a patient’s anatomy in advance of surgery. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 21, 2009 13:01 - 3 Comments
Immersive exhibit redefines bird’s-eye view
TEXAS A&M (US)—A new virtual environment that allows humans to see and hear some of the extreme ranges of vision and hearing that animals have could help reinvent the way museums teach about the natural world. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 12, 2009 11:53 - 0 Comments
Molding cells to patch up broken hearts
DUKE (US)—By mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab, bioengineers believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living “heart patch” to repair heart tissue damaged by disease. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2009 18:00 - 1 Comment
3-D printed glass melds art, science
U. WASHINGTON (US)—A team of engineers and artists has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 24, 2009 15:26 - 0 Comments
Chimp see, chimp do: Clues to empathy
EMORY (US)—Researchers have documented the first example of a chimpanzee empathizing with 3-D animation—in this case, a yawning ape. The findings could help in the design of animation therapy for children with autism. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 24, 2009 4:00 - 1 Comment
Rome digitally rebuilt in hours
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Using a new computer algorithm, researchers were able to take 150,000 tourist photos tagged “Roma” or “Rome” downloaded from the photo sharing Web site Flickr and combine them into a single 3-D digital model in about 21 hours. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 23, 2009 4:22 - 2 Comments
Molecules star in holographic 3-D movies
NYU (US)–A new technique for recording three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video has the potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 11, 2009 17:00 - 1 Comment
DNA crystals—now showing in 3D
Three-dimensional DNA structures were created by using single-stranded “sticky ends” that link double helices in DNA triangles that point in different directions.
Science & Technology - Jul 22, 2009 12:43 - 2 Comments
Scans show brain’s 2D region processes 3D
Bas Rokers (pictured), Alex Huk, and Larry Cormack discovered the center for 3D motion processing in the human brain. An enhanced image of Rokers’ brain from an fMRI scan shows the region active when perceiving 3D motion, seen as the bright blue area in the lower left of the photo. (Credit: Marsha Miller/UT Austin)
Health & Medicine - Jun 23, 2009 16:23 - 0 Comments
Wall-sized images reveal human body in 3-D
UC Irvine professor Joerg Meyer has developed software that renders medical data in 3-D on HIPerWall, a tiled display of 50 computer screens. (Credit: Daniel A. Anderson/UC Irvine)
Science & Technology - May 27, 2009 10:46 - 0 Comments
Computer reveals math’s inner beauty
These five objects were created by graphic artist Luc Benard with the 3D-XplorMath program developed by Richard Palais of UC Irvine. “True beauty can be found in mathematics,” Palais says.
Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2009 18:50 - 0 Comments
World’s smallest periscopes offer 3D views
VANDERBILT (US)—A periscope no wider than a human hair is yielding 3D images at the microscopic level and offering scientists an unprecedented look at cells and very small organisms from multiple vantage points—top, bottom, and all sides—like the single grain of pollen from a sunflower pictured here.
