Building 3D Models On the Fly With a Webcam

blee37 writes "Here is an excellent video demonstration of a new program developed by Qi Pan, a graduate student, and other researchers at the University of Cambridge. The 'ProFORMA' software constructs a 3D model of an object in real time from (commodity) webcam video. The user can watch the program deduce more pieces of the 3D model as the object is moved and rotated. The resulting graphics are of high quality."

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Amazing new mathematics research

[For a Free Internet]

We are beginning to see the applied math fruits of the amazing advances in lambda-matrix algebra that have taken place in the last decade. Most people outside of the academy aren't aware but we are living through another golden age in Math. First, the proof of Krebik's theorem in 1992. Then, building on that, the multi-computational vectorization of Gauss entities (this was done on a Beowulf cluster running Slackware!) And finally in 1995, Chen cracked the higher-order Piezo series conundrum (nicknamed the "Pac-Man Problem") Soon everything will be three-dimensional, thanks to these stunning innovations.

yawn, two decades ago called

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is why no-one with any ability chooses Computing at Cambridge.

On a plus note, MS swipes most of them up anyway, leaving the real engineering colleges (MIT, Imperial, etc.) to produce engineers.

Meanwhile, those who want the Oxbridge badge study Mathematics. Which is still a more worthy challenge than Engineering at MIT *ducks*.