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textures
Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash
Some scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a way to capture 3D info of complex-textured objects really simply with a camera flash. You should care about this because it's likely to make the textures applied to characters and objects in computer games way more realistic: normally texture capturing needs expensive devices like laser scanners. More »
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By Kit EatonComment by Face_523: Are people just realizing how to use bump maps? Thats all this is. Instead of using it for... 5 Responses | Other threads
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virtual mustaches
Microsoft's "Unwrap Mosaics" Add Mustaches (and More) to Video
Imagine being able to put a handlebar mustache on Grandma in a home video as easily as you could with Photoshop and a digital image. Microsoft showed off new technology called "Unwrap Mosaics" at the SIGGRAPH trade show in Los Angeles that could make this dream a reality without the need for fancy professional equipment. More »
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siggraph 2008
Bouncing Star Glowing Smart Ball Ushers In the Tron Age of Sports
Forget Beijing—the future of sports is appearing at SIGGRAPH 2008 in LA. This softball-sized Bouncing Star rubber ball has a cluster of full-color LEDS, an infrared transceiver and an accelerometer under its impact-friendly shell. By combining these components, the ball can create bright interactive games that you play by themselves, or with an interactive display. Here, the floor itself is a screen with the form of a court projected onto it, that responds to the ball's movement. More » -
ati
Fastest Graphics Card Alive ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Gets Official Tomorrow
ATI's Nvidia-slaying Radeon HD 4870 X2, previewed last month, will get official tomorrow at SIGGRAPH says the WSJ, who notes that some reviewers are calling it the most powerful card around. It's an interesting test of ATI's graphics card strategy: Cheaper, less power-hungry GPUs that can be easily strapped together (like the dual-GPU 4870 X2) versus Nvidia's penchant for obscenely powerful single GPUs. The best part? Whoever you go with, you can't really go wrong anymore. Update: The reviews are rolling, and yes, the $549 HD 4870 X2 destroys everything else. [WSJ]
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Comment by emoreth: I want it, if only because it would let me FINALLY fit still images to 4:3 or 16:9 without cropping... more » | Other threads
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i c u
Spellbinder Makes Invisible Artwork Appear When You Take a Picture
Say you're in Europe, standing in front of some medieval castle. You take a picture of it with your cameraphone and send it via MMS to Spellbinder. Soon you get a message back with your shot, only now there's a giant green fire-breathing dragon guarding the castle's gate. There are no elves in a sweatshop, magically overlaying images on top of your stuff. Rather there's a system that analyzes the shot, matches it to a huge database of other shots, then does what Spellbinder's programmers tell it to do. And it can do a whole lot more. More » -
siggraph 2007
Solar Bikini Returns to Siggraph, Intimate Gaming Bra and Boxers Debut
Siggraph 2007 (which stands for Special Interest Group/Graphics) is underway, and one of our favorite parts of the annual design and innovation shindig is the Unravel fashion show, where this year's strange brew includes an updated version of the solar bikini and intimate controllers for a couple to play video games by touching each other. More »
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Comment by vidmeister: Build one of these bad boys for Dolly Parton, and you could light up half of Cincinnati. more » | Other threads
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By Adam FrucciComment by StupidSimple: Man, waiting for 10 years to get laid (virtually) is a long time. Better pay for the real thing... more » | Other threads
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more than meets the eye
Kameraflage Images Only Visible Through a Digital Camera
With Kameraflage, now you'll be able to plant subliminal messages on T-shirts, movies and billboards that can only be seen with digital cameras. This context-sensitive display technology, developed by Sarah Logie and Connor Dickie, works by using colors that are invisible to us but easily picked up by the cameras' silicon chips. As you can see, the lovely model above is wearing a shirt that only reveals that cloud's lightning bolt when seen through an iPhone's camera, although any ordinary unmodified digicam would get the same result. She just as easily could have placed her phone number in that cloud. Hmm. Let's think of some other uses for this cool tech. More » -
gadgets
Teledildonics Advanced Again: The Hug Shirt
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then the Hug Shirt adds a sensual experience to the equation, working with Bluetooth and special HugMe Java software to let you push buttons on your cellphone to hug your significant other miles away. As long as both of you are wearing this shirt that has sensors and actuators that simulate a hug, you can spread the love far and wide, transmitting data such as hug pressure, skin temperature, heart rate and hug duration. More » -
gadgets
Intimate Partner Violence Clothing
This line of IPV clothing is the work of Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent. The clothing is made of pressure sensitive fabric that can detect and measure impact to that clothing, or body underneath. It will then relay the data and information to a remote server where it can be accessed by authorities or archived for other purposes. More »
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