AEC Infrastructure management guru at Autodesk and author of Between The Poles, Geoff Zeiss, opines on attracting and retaining design and technology professionals while the existing workforce ages.
Articles Written by Maitri Erwin
Maitri Erwin is a geophysicist at an independent energy company, where she wades through terabytes of 3D seismic data daily. She has previously worked as 3D-geospatial technology executive and energy geoscientist. Maitri is also Indian Languages advisor to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net">Project Gutenberg</a>, the oldest producer of free electronic books.
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A Portable Laser Backpack for Interior 3D Mapping
The UC-Berkeley lab that prototyped fast 3D city model generation using airborne lasers now brings us a cheaper and innovative method to map interiors in 3D.
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3D Modeling For Brain And Bone Health At SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH news today is abuzz with the benefits of 3d modeling in the health field.
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New Classes Of Engineered Fluorescent Protein To Store High-Density 3D Data
Technology Review reports on a “chemically pure crystal composed solely of proteins that can be read and reversibly switched between at least two different states using nothing but light.”
“Acting within 24 hours of receiving a request from researchers, the National Science Foundation late last week made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute hours on a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas to study how the oil spreading from BP’s gusher will affect coastlines.”
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IBM Research Creates World’s Smallest 3D Map
IBM scientists have created the smallest 3D map of the earth – so small that 1,000 maps could fit on a grain of salt.
Scientists use 3D printer to create first printed human veing using human cells and printed onto “bio-paper.”
Anatoly Zenkov offers a tool (download for PC and Mac) that tracks your mouse’s movement across the screen. Turn on the utility, minimize it and go about your business on the computer.
In the wake of Avatar’s success, many a discussion has taken place in visualization circles about the value of high production quality and a good story. One does not have to sacrifice itself for the other. The Making of Samurai Jack shows how Genndy Tartakovsky et al. upheld the principles of uncompromised art and story.
Google Earth KML layer from new Geo-Eye satellite imagery of Haiti 7.0 earthquake; New York Times interactive map of before-and-after imagery.