Microsoft has created an app for your Phone that allows you to create a 3-D model of an object by simply walking around it and taking pictures. They walked around a car and took 40 pictures in order to create a fairly decent 3-D model of it. The technology does not work with objects in motion, instead the object needs to be static.
SIGGRAPH news today is abuzz with the benefits of 3d modeling in the health field.
LiveScience | 3D Brain Model Could Revolutionize Neurology
A new project aims to produce a Google Maps-like guide of the brain’s labyrinthine structure At a presentation here at the SIGGRAPH interactive technology and computer graphics conference, researchers highlighted how a complete 3-D model of the brain could spark a new era in neurological research.
Called The Whole Brain Catalog, the project compiles data from across the research spectrum, in a variety of forms. It takes MRI data, pictures of stained neurons and theoretical diagrams of brain circuitry and presents them in a way that scientists, doctors and 3-D animators can digest in a unified way. Those users then contribute back to the site, wiki-style, to produce an increasingly full model of the brain at every scale, down to the molecular level.
TechNews Daily | 3D Models To Aid In Mending Broken Bones
Surgically cutting a patient open is sometimes necessary to expose the break and allow a surgeon to manipulate the bone so it fits together accurately. To ease these surgeries, researchers seek to combine state of the art of 3-D imaging, pattern recognition and robotics.
CT scans of healthy and fractured joints will be used to work out the mathematical algorithm for the exact displacement and rotation of each bone fragment. Using this information, a 3-D model of the broken bone will be made on software from the United Kingdom-based company Simpleware that lets doctors better see how to mend the bone during surgery.
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