RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A new dental imaging system that can help dentists see tooth decay earlier and in greater detail has received regulatory clearance and is expected to be commercially available ...

The Penrose Triangle is as elegant as it is impossible—much like M.C. Escher’s drawings, it presents a two-dimensional illusion that the eye interprets as three-dimensional. The task of effectively ...

Using data and imagery from a 3-D scanner, the 3-D printer produces replicas of crashed cars. The finished product allows investigators to examine the scaled-down car from all angles in the palm of ...

At a lab at N.C. State, Binil Starly could be a part of medical history and he's using industrial engineers to do it. Starly says we're getting close - close to a world where, when delivering the ...

Originally GPUs were all about one thing, 3D graphics, and specifically fill-rate. Creating 3D triangles, calculating their position, coloring them in, processing the right ones (thank you tile-based ...

The Real-View Co. is promising to unveil an affordable 3D desktop scanner during CES 2009 that uses the latest in medical imaging technology. The machine scans objects with its dual camera 'hook' to ...

3D shapes can be made from 2D shapes called nets. Watch the video to learn how 3D shapes, such as a cube, can be created from nets, an arrangement of 2D shapes. Let's talk about nets. More ...