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AI Dreams => General Chat => Topic started by: Tyler on April 05, 2007, 01:48:43 pm

Title: Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget
Post by: Tyler on April 05, 2007, 01:48:43 pm

Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget
         

Laser scanners with arrays of cameras can create digital models of objects that encode all the significant bumps, cracks, corners and facets of real things.

The world is just beginning to grapple with the implications of this relatively low-cost d...
      

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D6638
         

Title: Re: Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget
Post by: Freddy on April 11, 2007, 01:33:03 pm

I can imagine us beaming actual objects to each other in the future just as we send 2D images today.  Wouldn't it be cool to beam your latest 3D model to your friends  :o