The elaborate costumes worn by Rapunzel, the heroine of Disney's "Tangled," are testament to the growing sophistication of cloth animation, but for art directors, who must tweak tens or hundreds of technical parameters, achieving ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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A 3D-printed teddy bear can have a stiff head, a pliable tummy and bendable arms, even though all of it is made of the same relatively stiff material, using a new method developed by Disney Research.
Engineering
Aug 5, 2015
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Obtaining the aerodynamic properties necessary to simulate falling leaves or a tumbling box caught by the wind can be as simple as dropping the object off of a balcony and recording the fall, thanks to OmniAD, a data-driven ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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In his first week as Cisco Systems' new CEO, Chuck Robbins made an immediate impression, moving quickly on plans to create a leaner, faster-moving company out of the networking colossus.
Business
Aug 5, 2015
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Disney Research has developed a new method of rendering high-quality graphics for animated features that efficiently corrects for erroneous pixels while preserving the crisp detail in images, significantly increasing the ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2015
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Horses share some surprisingly similar facial expressions to humans and chimps, according to new University of Sussex research.
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2015
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In the more than 130 years since Thomas Edison released the electric light bulb on the world, households have more or less gotten electricity one way. Build a power plant, string power lines in all directions until you've ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 5, 2015
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Mike Jones hunts for small companies with "fantastically large" ambitions.
Business
Aug 5, 2015
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NASA's Terra satellite and RapidScat provided forecasters with information about Tropical Storm Guillermo, revealing that the strongest winds were on the northern and eastern sides.
Earth Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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