3D-printers. To help contemporary artists?

[Vladimir]

Technology goes farther. Probably is not far off a breakthrough in optical character recognition and analysis of images of paintings. The idea of ​​living art may hold a competent training, the computer learned to distinguish the strong from the weak painting. As technical help for the search of interesting patterns for later otsmotra man - quite amiss.

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The image on the touch

In the next five years, believe the developers of IBM, computers will make a powerful breakthrough in the simulation of the human senses. It is known that the touch interface is one of the main trends in the field of consumer electronics. And today, are being developed to improve it. Thus, IBM scientists want to "teach" the touch screen to transfer tactile sensations. This feature can be to the taste lover of online shopping: the usual viewing photos vending dress and added the ability to "touch" it. Drag your finger across the screen with a photo costume, you can feel the texture of the material from which it is made.

To implement this idea using tactile sensing technology influences, infrared light and pressure to simulate the sense of touch, and ... standard vibration function cell phone. It allows you to give each object a unique set of vibration characteristics, which will transmit the sense of touch.

Pixel knows

IBM developers complain that computers today understand the meaning of an image only on text tags and name (the actual content of the image remains for computers beyond understanding). But scientists do not lose heart and work hard to learn computer systems by analyzing the pixels to understand the meaning of the image, as it does people.

Opportunity to gain knowledge of computer visual data will have a significant impact on health care, retail, and agriculture, confident IBM. Thus, the technique can analyze the images of computer tomography, X-rays and ultrasound findings, while recognizing subtle or invisible to the human eye detail.

Read more: http://top.rbc.ru/economics/31/01/2013/842964.shtml

[Vladimir]

Technology went to the people.
Japanese made fotobudki: you come, you scan and 3D-printer gives your sculpture up to 20 cm


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