3-D scanning, with your smartphone
Startup Viztu Technologies developed commercial software that generated 3-D models from 2-D photos, before selling to a tech giant.
As the world turns: Learning about plate tectonics through on-screen interactions
Created by OEIT's ARTEMiS group, the Plate Tectonics interactive visualization challenges students to interpret a 3-D globe of tectonic data, providing animations of the opening and closing of ocean basins and the splitting of Pangaea.
3-D images, with only one photon per pixel
New scheme could enable laser rangefinders to infer depth from a hundredth as much light — and to produce images from only one nine-hundredth the light.