Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics
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For centuries, Japan's kimono-makers have relied on stencils, paintbrushes and hours of labor to turn out their elaborate and graceful creations. Kimono designer Yuko Iwakuma uses some more up-to-date tools: a computer and an ink-jet printer.
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Pay-as-you-go computer power could soon be helping computer animators finish their films.
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Blog: Japanese camera maker sees a future in higher-end small cameras, hybrid designs that incorporate features from SLR cameras.
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New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Nanotechnology is coming to a clothing store near you.
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MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of large unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small soup of triangles that are common in 3D scanning. MeshLab providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes. Support for output in the compressed U3D format allows also the creation of PDF documents with embedded 3D objects using LaTeX.   MeshLab 1.1.0 introduces many important and appealing new features. The most notable improvements are the possibility of managing multiple meshes on different layers, and the new features for the processing of raw 3D scanning data. ICP alignment and Poisson based merging of multiple range maps is now possible within MeshLab.   More info and screenshots of the system are available at   http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
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Dartmouth College computer scientists create software that uses statistical techniques to authenticate art, to sort out real works from fakes. Their first finding: A painting purportedly by Perugino may have been done by four different artists. By Noah Shachtman.
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Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.    A new picture size routine, which maps specified user coordinates to a given final size, provides a convenient way of forcing the plotted  subregion of a graph to have a fixed size. The correct surface normal is chosen when calculating lighting. The comment character can now be escaped when reading strings from data files (but is disabled when reading raw characters with getc). The new word file mode is useful for reading  white space-delimited strings. PostScript output files are now explicitly designated as EPSF in the header line. The minimum width and height of flowchart blocks may now be controlled separately. Interpolation and knot theory modules were added. The usage of path vs. guide in the base files was  standardized.   https://sourceforge.net/projects/asymptote
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The artists at a Swedish design firm experiment with "drawing" personalized furniture in a room space. The invisible lines are captured by a camera, computerized and the sketches are translated into 3-D digital files and materialized through Rapid Prototyping.
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New company in New York will emboss gadgets with custom artwork, and they're going to give away the business plan. Photos: Laser-etched laptops
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One of the under-appreciated events at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona was the demonstration by graphics component manufacturer nVidia of a theoretical user interface programmed using a 3D library evolved from OpenGL. The Khronos Group industry consortium - of which nVidia is a member - used the company's demonstration to highlight the public release of version 1.0 of the OpenKODE specification for embedded systems.
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Design specialists dream up Media Center PCs that look more like furniture.
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Dutch engineers stitch together hundreds of images to create a photo with 2.5 billion pixels. Photo: Giant digital image
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.
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Holograms and kaleidoscopes of shimmering  colors will be part of Japan's latest hi-tech response to the  growing number of banknote counterfeiting cases troubling  authorities.
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CHIBA, Japan, Oct 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forget the giant   flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest   technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed   his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the   gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.
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The creator of Photoshop, Acrobat and Creative Suite continues to impress.