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Researchers Make Clinical Trials a Virtual Reality
August 30, 2012 Clinical trials can be time-consuming, expensive and intrusive, but they are also necessary. Researchers have developed an invention that makes clinical trials more efficient by moving them into the ... > full story -
Capturing Movements of Actors and Athletes in Real Time With Conventional Video Cameras
August 28, 2012 Within milliseconds, and just with the help of mathematics, computing power and conventional video cameras, computer scientists can automatically capture the movements of several people. The ... > full story -
Collective Motion in Schools of Fish Can Evolve as Finely Tuned Defense Against Attack from Predators: Virtual Fish Simulation
August 23, 2012 Researchers have designed a video game for predatory fish that has unraveled some lingering evolutionary questions about group formation and movement in ... > full story -
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Computer-Simulated Knitting Goes Right Down to the Yarn
August 17, 2012 A new method for building computer-simulated knitted fabric out of an array of individual stitches has just been developed. The innovation creates a 3-D model of a single stitch and then combine ... > full story -
Molecular Economics: New Computer Models Calculate Systems-Wide Costs of Gene Expression
August 8, 2012 Bioengineers have developed a method of modeling, simultaneously, an organism's metabolism and its underlying gene expression. In the emerging field of systems biology, scientists model cellular ... > full story -
Researchers Unlock Secret of the Rare 'Twinned Rainbow'
August 6, 2012 Scientists have yet to fully unravel the mysteries of rainbows, but a group of researchers have used simulations of these natural wonders to unlock the secret to a rare optical phenomenon known as ... > full story -
New Generation of Virtual Humans Helping to Train Psychologists
August 3, 2012 New technology has led to the creation of virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically mimic the symptoms of a patient with clinical psychological ... > full story -
Percentage of Teen Drivers Continues to Drop
August 3, 2012 Thirty years ago, eight in 10 Americans ages 17 to 19 had a driver's license. Today, it's six in 10, according to a new ... > full story -
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Animation Research Could Offer Unparalleled Control of Characters Without Skeletons
August 2, 2012 Computer-generated characters have become so lifelike in appearance and movement that the line separating reality is almost imperceptible at times. But while bipeds and quadrupeds have reigned ... > full story -
Adding a '3D Print' Button to Animation Software
July 31, 2012 Watch out, Barbie: omnivorous beasts are assembling in a 3D printer near you. A new tool turns animated characters into fully articulated action figures. Computer scientists have created an add-on ... > full story
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