Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and automatically control the amount of material being deposited during the printing ...

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Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to ...

Ordinarily, if you want to change the shape in which an object is 3D-printed, you have to alter the computer model that tells the printer what to do. A new and simpler technique, however, allows the ...

Augmented reality has the potential to revolutionize education, driving, shopping, medicine, and many other fields. Apple’s Reality Converter gives developers a free tool to convert, view, and ...

By quickly generating aesthetically accurate previews of fabricated objects, the VisiPrint system could make prototyping ...

Nvidia Corp. today showcased the impressive advances it has made in the area of “inverse rendering,” which is a technique that uses artificial intelligence to reconstruct a series of still photos into ...

A new method significantly advances 3D imaging of reflective surfaces. The approach integrates techniques known from high-precision optical 3D metrology and computer vision, and could benefit ...