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Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine

Posted by michael on from the etch-a-sketch dept.

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."

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  1. Re:pr0n by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Are you capable of drawing any female pornstar
    > so that she looks different enough from the others
    > that the search engine can find her?

    Damn, you've uncovered by secret super-power. Oh, you didn't think there was an X-man with the amazing porn star drawing mutation? How wrong you were...

    John.