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11.22.09

In The Future, All Our Pop Idols Will Be Machines

By Paul Adams Posted 10.07.2009 at 10:59 am 6 Comments

Performing live at CEATEC, everyone's favorite catwalk model bot has been loaded with Vocaloid software (Rin), enabling her to croon sweet pop songs.

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French Government May Require Labelling of Digitally Altered Photos

By Stuart Fox Posted 09.22.2009 at 12:01 pm 7 Comments

In the hope of combating anorexia, 50 members of the French Assembly have proposed a bill that would require magazines to label any portraits that have been digitally altered. They claim that slimmed-down pics of celebs lead to anorexia in young women looking to attain unrealistic body sizes.

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Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users' Photos

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 09.17.2009 at 3:51 pm 8 Comments

Dubrovnik in 3-D: University of Washington

They came, they saw, they took pictures. And thanks to them -- about 150,000 Flickr users -- a team of computer scientists built Rome in a day.

Using nearly half a million Flickr photos of Rome, Venice, and the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington's Graphics and Imaging Laboratory assembled digital models of the three cities in 3-D.

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READ MORE ABOUT > 3-D, 3-d modelling, flickr, images, models, photography, Photos, photosynth, virtual reality