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3D Visualization Moves Forward
Chris writes "Showing for the first time at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Boston was a three-dimensional display with 100 million volume pixels or "voxels". The Perspecta is a hardware and software combination that projects 3D images inside a 500 mm transparent spherical dome. Images 250 mm in diameter can be seen from a full 360 degrees without goggles, allowing the viewer to walk around the image. It can be used to visualize protein structures and to plan surgical and radiation treatment by locating the exact position of a tumour on an x-ray or mammogram. It could also be used in air traffic control, prototype designing and security scanning of luggage. Perspecta uses Texas Instruments' digital light processor technology and a spinning projection screen, which sweeps the sphere." We've done some previous stories about this globe from Actuality Systems. The trend seems to be toward simulating 3D with high-resolution flat screens, though.
It can also be used to show to a group of people the design flaw in the Death Star.
Strangely enough, these aren't mutually exclusive; any holodeck that I use had better be able to model breasts in three dimensions.
The Fortune Tellers Association of America called. They want their idea back. They're claiming "patent infringement" or some such.
-- kwashiorkor --
Leaps in Logic
should not be confused with
Jumping to Conclusions.
Listen, I don't know what kind of guy you are, but I'm a geek and I'm *plenty* interested in breasts. The problem lies in finding someone who will let you be interested in theirs...
"I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives."
Oh we've always been interested in breasts.. only now they'll actually be in three dimensions!