 Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A breakthrough from ... | |
'Virtuality' gets real August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Up to now virtual reality has proved cumbersome as a design tool, but European researchers are finalising a system that brings ‘virtuality’ to the wider world. | |
 Researchers develop next-generation computer antivirus system August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. ... | |
 Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations September 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
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By putting on a virtual reality mask, holding a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, an artist can draw 3D objects in the air with unprecedented precision. This new system is called “Drawing ... | |
Computer scientist aims for a better-networked military August 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Patrick Crowley, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering at
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 Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits May 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Today’s computers can do a lot as far as computation goes, but they tend to do it in an impersonal, stand-offish way, so to speak. However, computer engineers are busy changing that, as they try to give computers ... | |
 Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have ... | |
 Humanoid avatar plays a competitive game of table tennis January 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Recently, scientists have designed and built an immersive table tennis (or “ping-pong”) simulation that allows a human to compete against a computer. While most virtual reality environments support slow- or ... | |
Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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A chain letter hoax that fooled thousands of people may help computer scientists understand how information spreads on a global scale. | |
 Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ... | |
 Avatar Mimics You in Real Time March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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It’s a little bit like looking in the mirror at your cartoon double, except that the “reflection” is an avatar on your computer screen. Wave your hand, nod your head, speak a sentence, and your avatar does ... | |
Quantum existence testing gives extreme solutions to increase network speed March 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Using a novel quantum computing algorithm, scientists have simplified the process for finding extreme values in a database compared with classical and earlier quantum computing methods. With its reduced time and minimal error ... | |
Visualizing Open Source Software Development July 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A UC Davis graduate student has created short, colorful movies that show the development of open source software. With dancing points of light, rings of color and a soundtrack, the Code_swarm animations show ... | |
Virtual applications reach out to real world August 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system ... | |
 In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars January 18, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their ... | |
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