Kimono-Makers Now 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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Want a window into so-called telemetric manufacturing methods of the future? Performance artists at the Sundance Film Festival created a virtual sweatshop in Second Life that makes real jeans. Is it art for money or money for art?.
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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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Design specialists dream up Media Center PCs that look more like furniture.
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Teams of digital designers rake in piles of cash as businesses scramble to set up shop in the virtual world. By the Associated Press.
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.
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LOS ANGELES -- When Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scion model, it turned to Millions of Us, one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe Second Life.
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A Japanese company has developed &quot;smile  checker&quot; software that can tell whether someone looks happy,  sad or somewhere in between.
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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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Powerset opens the kimono, a bit, hoping to turn skeptics into believers.
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Photo organizing, editing tool emerges from beta test.
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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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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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It's the Internet Revolution meets the Industrial Revolution: a new program that lets people design 3-D objects like car parts and door knobs in metal or plastic then order them online.
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Customized cars that use commercial logos as a creative palette.
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In Japan, the cell phone strap is a form of self-expression. By Lisa Katayama.
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The Internet is helping to drive the shift to fashionable bridal attendant wear, as Web sites offer a broad choice of styles and fabrics and ease of purchase.