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Video reveals how hundreds of Easter Island moai statues 'walked' into place across steep terrain

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.
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Textured wave painting tutorial: 3D ocean art with modeling paste & acrylics

Watch as an artist transforms a simple canvas into a stunning textured wave painting using modeling paste and acrylic paints.
Tech Xplore

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...
IEEE

3D Shape-based Body Composition Prediction Model Using Machine Learning

Abstract: A booming development of 3D body scan and modeling technologies has facilitated large-scale anthropometric data collections for biomedical research and applications. However, usages of the ...
IEEE

CreatureShop: Interactive 3D Character Modeling and Texturing From a Single Color Drawing

Abstract: Creating 3D shapes from 2D drawings is an important problem with applications in content creation for computer animation and virtual reality. We introduce a new sketch-based system, ...
GitHub

ORIPA is a drawing software dedicated to designing the crease patterns of origami. The unique feature of ORIPA is calculation of the folded shape from the pattern.

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...