You might assume that since the occupation of ‘topiarist’ goes back nearly 2000 years (Pliny the Younger 62-100AD was a keen topiarist) it might well go on for another 2000. And it might – but nonetheless, as with many other occupations, professional topiarists might be well advised to keep an eye on new technological developments. […]
Tag: 3d
Ig Nobellian Miller’s new use for 3D printing: Women’s penis size recall
Geoffrey Miller, who shared a 2008 Ig Nobel Prize, for research on lap dancers’ fertility and earning power, continues his relentless pursuit of knowledge. Professor Miller and several colleagues have come up with a new use for 3D printing. They tell all in the new study: “Women’s Preferences for Penis Size: A New Research Method Using Selection […]
Observing praying mantises in 3D glasses hanging topsy-turvey
One approach to try “to understand 3D vision in the praying mantis, the only invertebrate known to have this ability, and compare it with vision in humans” is to equip a mantis with specially-built tiny 3-D glasses, suspend the spectacles-clad mantis upside down from a post, and then monitor that mantis’s response to artificially created […]
Nifty stereogram converter from NY public library
The New York Public Library web site has a tool that lets you take stereo photos, and convert them into a single moving, apparently 3-D, image. An example is shown here. They invite you to: Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library. Joshua […]
A 2D face of 3D dental research
Science Illustrated describes 3D-imaging dental research conducted at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering. The profile features this attractive 2D-image: