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Fast Generation of 3D City Models
FleaPlus writes "New Scientist and UC Berkeley News report on research by Avideh Zakhor and Christian Früh on rapidly and automatically generating photo-realistic 3D models (coral cache) of city environments. This is reminiscent of research mentioned here in March, although the approach is rather different. Applications for areas like urban planning, entertainment, emergency response, and the military are discussed. Zakhor's group is also working on 4D systems, to allow for recording of events over time as moving 3D models."
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Most of the tyrants which were toppled recently did so without the U.S. bombing towns and spreading false rumours about alleged WMDs.
It looks more to me as a case of "let's make absolutely sure to be there when Saddam Hussein loose his grip to power! Otherwise we might get something there not fitting with our political agenda."
In fact the number of tyrants toppled with the help of the U.S. is rather small compared with the number of tyrants installed either by the U.S., supported by the U.S. or at least accepted by the U.S. (No. Writing diplomatic notes to tyrants that having free and fair elections might yield some advantages doesn't count as 'helping topple a tyrant'.)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/f rontpage/4503061.stm
Why the fuck did we go to war, causing more instability in the region, countless civilian and military deaths, destruction of property and countless archaelogical sites and finds, again??