From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:07:46 +1000
Subject: 3D display
G'day, Probably old news to many here but.... Real 3D in Real-Time How useful would it be for surgeons to explore a 3D image of the tumour they are about to remove - to be able to examine it from all sides? And what if air-traffic controllers could see their patch of airspace in full 3D, with all of their aircraft clearly represented? Well now they can. A new display system called Perspecta 1.9 projects real-time images onto a 25-centimetre-diameter screen as it spins rapidly within a soccer-ball-sized sphere. The 3D image created appears to hang in midair, allowing users to view it from all sides, rotate it and zoom in and out. The system is already being used to visualise data from medical scanners, to picture the Earth's crust using seismic data, and to represent squadrons of aircraft using radar information... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625025.400 Cheers