Three dimensional images become significant tool
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Three-dimensional images, which helped to show that double amputee Oscar Pistorius receives considerable advantages from carbon fiber blade attachments, have become a significant tool in the drive to improve athletic performances.
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The Web, digital photography and printing are contributing to the increased use of color.
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Join the crowd: Step up from a digital point-and-shoot to a more powerful, more affordable digital SLR.
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A new method for creating metamaterials that bend light in unusual ways may have brought practical applications closer.
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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body.
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Addition of high-end graphics to computers based on open-source platform helps company go beyond its proprietary products.
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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Three new models of digital S.L.R. cameras will demonstrate just how fast single-lens reflex technology is advancing.
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Loreo's lens lets an SLR take two simultaneous pictures of the same scene, letting people see 3D views from a print.
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Reporter Alexander Gelfand has his likeness immortalized with new 3-D printing technology. Photographs by Ryan Brenizer.
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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body, thanks to new 3D imaging.
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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Eastman Kodak's new high-sensitivity image sensor translates to less noisy pictures.
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Three dimensional images may be commonplace at the movies nowadays, popularised in Hollywood&#39;s classic sci-fi movie &quot;Star Wars&quot; in which Princess Leia made an inter-galactic plea for help by sending a 3-D hologram.
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A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ is working on a variety of innovative photo projects, ranging from experiments with its 3D maps offering to massive panoramic photos that users can zoom into for details. Developers who work in the company's research arm showed off the technologies on Tuesday during the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. HD View is one photo project that definitely has the "wow" factor. The technology allows users to combine hundreds of photos to create one massive picture that users can zoom in on to see clear details. In one example, a panoramic photo of the city of Seattle includes 800 images, each 8 megapixals in size, stitched together to create a 3.6 billion-pixel image. On a computer screen, it looks just like a panoramic photo. So, what's the point of combining so many photos? The massive file includes incredible detail. Michael Cohen, a researcher at Microsoft working on the project, zoomed in to the roof of a building where a clay owl peers around a corner. With the picture zoomed out, a viewer doesn't even see a pin prick in the spot where the owl sits. Another large photo of a mountain in Canada looks like a standard nature snapshot. But Cohen zoomed in to discover that climbers are scaling the rock wall. After finding the first climber, he followed the climbing ropes up to find the second one above him on the wall. When the photo is zoomed out, it's hard to imagine there might be climbers on the wall. Microsoft offers the tool to build HD View photos for free on its Web site. Creating an HD View panorama image, however, isn't for just anyone. Such images are quite large and may require special cameras. Another Microsoft project, unveiled last year and built in collaboration with the University of Washington, collects images of a site such as Rome's Trevi fountain from public photo-sharing Web pages such as Flickr. The Photo Tourism technology combines the photos into a 3D image so users can look at the object from any view. The idea was to take advantage of the potentially billions of images that are online, said Noah Snavely, a researcher at the University of Washington who works on the project with Microsoft researchers. Microsoft also demonstrated at the summit some experiments with Virtual Earth. Eyal Ofek, a Microsoft researcher, demonstrated a 3D map of San Francisco that is made up of 10 million images, including 50,000 aerial photographs as well as pictures taken at street level. All the photos are stitched together so a user can navigate from a bird's-eye view seamlessly down to street level. The view is different from the street view capability in Google Maps, which doesn't combine the street-level pictures with aerial shots. About 800 workers are developing projects at Microsoft Research. Some technologies they develop may become commercial Microsoft products, and others could be sold to other companies. The summit, which ended Tuesday, was an opportunity for Microsoft and its partners in academia to show off some of their projects.
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3-D printing is poised to grow rapidly in the next few years.