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Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features. All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects."
Now I can fly around the "Search" button?
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How long until we hear about an "architectural piracy" case over the design of small-city houses...
the user's ability to sketch. I used to teach an amature art class, most people can't even draw a recognizable hand.
Didn't we have a similar article about 3D searching a week ago?
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i've seen it before on slashdot i guess
Oh, wait
I didn't get the memo about the April Fools jokes going on ALL APRIL?
A 3D haystack!
In related news... the Etch-a-Sketch people's patent lawyers are revving their engines :-)
If Slashdot started comparing the general shape of submitted articles maybe we would avoid a couple of dupes...
How long before the porn industry capitalizes on this one?
The possibilities are endless.
And they developed this for searching for "industrial objects". Riiighht.
Seriously though the pr0n industry is an extreme early adopter of most technologies, I'm sure that the researchers could fund research for the rest o their lives by creating an adult search engine.
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So now I get to draw the porn I want, wank to that, and then get to see the porn I want! OMG! Wait doesnt Google already have this feature? They have everything else /:
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...will be the most critical part. i could easily see people doodling in the dark trying to get an object they desire, but are not sure how to visually detail out.
The editors already seem to be unable to "mine a catalog" of text.
but I rarely see stuff come out of MS Paint that resembles what it's supposed to be.
Of course, this could be used to search from a scanned in image, which would be good for things like finding car parts, which we had a story about a couple of days ago. Old news, slightly different subject.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/04/142321 0&tid=
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So all I have to do is sketch a woman with big boobies?..
it's alot easier to type "fireplace" than draw it.
My drawing skills are something to be desired. I'm not exactly sure how they can compensate for poor artists...
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I believe that the killer app for this technology will be for 3d desktops. Unfortunately, the killer app for 3d desktops probably doesn't exist.
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Haven't been used for a wile since like Jaws 3D.
Personally i've been freelance developing 3D art and models for companies for a few years now, and i've learned a couple of things.
Turbo squid is better for artists.
And 3D objects don't get better with age (at least not yet)
This will be GREAT for the production industry (which has moved off shore) as users will be able to forget their skills of automatic recall when it comes to part recognition and sucumb to the all mighty 3D shape database.
What a great new way to search for porn!
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I've been curious if there has been a hyperelegant neural network solution that can do everything from recognize handwriting to faces. Completely different applications would only require retraining. So you wouldn't hear about specific applications like this, but one breakthrough that can simply, elegantly be applied anytime recognition must be performed. Are there any real (not patent or such) related reasons this doesn't exist?
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but I can give you her measurements....
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Your english skills leave something to be desired.
And if somebody *ahem*Bush*ahem* drew a WMD, it'd still give him this
Seems like Slashdot needs a new slogan: Dupes for Nerds, Stuff that Mattered.
Seriously though... is it me, or are a lot of people submitting previous stories in order to expose the "editors" for what most of them are: a bunch of overpaid geeks who have no clue what editing is really all about.
this from the chief scientist. what an idiot.
Ahhh I can see it now. The marketing types will have a field day with this one. Maybe they could incorporate Clippy into the program, to help out the drawing impared.
"I see you are trying to draw a monkey wearing what looks like a condom on it's head... May I assist you in finding such an item?"
"Click'
"Find books about Monkeys With Condoms on their Heads at Amazon.com"
"Find the lowest priced Monkey with Condoms on their heads with Price Grabber"
Bring it.
Where's the sata they will use to build their index? WHo has the experties to actually construct a search query?
The researchers have released the most popular sketch submitted by beta testers who were asked to sketch what they're thinking of:
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Safari can't open the page "http://www.longurlincludingwordslikehotandpussy.c om/" because it can't find the server "www.longurlincludingwordslikehotandpussy.com” ;.
Had to check.
Help, I've got a 3-D search engine up my ass!
And what would the instructions say about how to draw "lesbian" for example? Searching for porn is a monumentally stupid application of this technology. 95% of the people out there would only get results which include penis or breast, and anything drawn more complex than that would all return a link to the goatse guy. In the five seconds it takes to type in the exact kind of pr0n you're looking for (eg: at sex.com or some other search engine) you wouldn't even be able to draw a stick figure representation of the same thing, which is indistinguishable from just about every other crude drawing. Not to mention that you'd need some kind of applet/ActiveX/whatever to allow the user to do the crude drawing via mouse.
If you don't believe me, then please try this exercise. Grab a pen, a piece of paper, and a stopwatch. Now, start the timer and begin drawing mature granny lesbian bondage with piercings and anal penetration. Go. How long did that take?
Larger screenshots of the 3D search engine can be found here and here.
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I thought we had already covered this. Must be a slow news day..
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I was wondering if the inventors had thought about this application of this technology to porn.
The I saw the term "architectural features" and relized that they already had.
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All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of
How does one go about sketching "Better Job" ?
I can see the techs now - wiping marker-pen of the monitor...
i think this was posted as "search by shape" ages ago
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/04/142
When I tried submitting this story two days ago, linking it to a report on an Indian portal, the story was rejected.
Still, I'm glad this submission was accepted. The next thing we need is a robust audio search engine.
Interesting.
By the way, Lou Dobbs is a faget.
I can even do it with a textbox interface:
:) Just imagine what the poor search engine would have to do to match that horrible goatse ascii *shudder*. Maybe it'd return some astronomy websites dealing with singularities.
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And no, I cannot believe that I actually posted some ascii pr0n on Slashdot
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
3d model search engine
What if I want to search for wind or existentialism?
...and spending countless hours at the hardware store trying to find just the right parts to make the coolest bong in the school district?
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Is this news? I read about this in an ACM magazine or something like that a year or to ago...
Stupid CNN and their useless tiny images. Somebody google us up a link to a real description of this thing, with normal sized screenshots (I'm too lazy).
Now all they need to do is a similar engine for pr0n. That way I can draw the perfect tits to look for :D
I'll be more impressed when I get my hands on a 4D search engine. My first movie sequence search would be like: "guy fucks women in the * "
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Ramani expects his search engine will serve huge industrial companies whose engineers often waste time and energy designing a specialized part when someone else has already created, used or rejected something similar.
It seems they target the industries only,
but somewhat earlier I've been thinking too that we need some other way to crawl / search data then we've been doing so far or at least a more advanced way to get specific data. (granted; google does what it does, and does it extremely well)
Consider a world where you have stuff recording your life and creating lots and lots of data of which you can't manually analyze, categorize, pinpoint a certain piece of data you have in mind , the typical naming of digital pictures; Im000931.jpg - Im001069.jpg.
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I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Say I want to look for some weird industrial part. I open up google and type "long hard metal round"
And I come up with plenty of usefu... oh nm
I drew what I thought was a fairly respectable stomach (respectable if it had been done by a 10 year old with Down's) and it found a chair, a cabinet, and a "Euro Head". Methinks there was a breakdown in communication somewhere down the line.
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OCR is just starting to recognize letters at a quality that is satisfactory.
I don't believe this technology exists yet until OCR is perfected.
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a 3d search engine does me no good till i can bring it up in a browser to find the 3d objects I WANT.HEY,THIS IS THE FLY N.EYE DECADE,Al Franken had his decade.What about ME!!!! FLY N. EYE!
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but I wish the people who selected the stories to be posted actually READ the stories that have been posted so there wouldnt be any dupes
sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects
She's around 25, slender, blond, big ole ti...
ahhhhh never mind....
God designed it. We call them dogs. They can find anything. If the desired object is not ment to be eaten, the an infant does pretty well too.
This story seems oddly familiar.
I suspect that half the people who live in Rensselaer County (SE of Albany, NY) can't spell the county name. Freely granted that it's a Dutch name, unusual when compared to most English words.
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Yeah dude, this story is such a dupe. I can't find the damn link, but I assure you, it was posted no longer ago than three weeks.
This was posted to the front page before..on April 4th - http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/04/1423210.shtm l?tid=126
Seems like this is happening more and more. Does no one read slashdot anymore ?
3d searching used to be tedious, boring, and made your eyeballs itch. Today I can search the google.com for "ddd" and get lightning fast results. We don't need yet another tool to make it even easier.
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