chezifresh - Slashdot User

Comment travel to the stars just got easier (Score 1) 365

by chezifresh on Friday February 05, 2010 @08:02PM (#31041358) Attached to: Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy

if this really works and can be very precise then you can teleport energy to a moving spacecraft making serious space travel a reality. no longer would you need to carry ANY fuel.

NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars 66

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @05:51PM from the find-waldo-win-a-shuttle-main-engine dept.

tedlistens writes "NASA is asking the public to suggest subjects for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, its super powerful camera currently orbiting Mars. Since it arrived there in 2006, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen more success than that lost lander, recording nearly 13,000 observations of Martian terrain, with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as a desk. By letting the public in on the Martian photo shoot, scientists aren't just getting more people excited about space exploration. They're hoping that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera's already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged."

Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code 83

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:52PM from the nice-of-them dept.

dsavi writes "Ptex, Walt Disney Animation Studio's cutting-edge 3D texture mapping library which was first used on nearly every surface in the 2008 animated feature Bolt, was released under the BSD license on Friday. Quoting the announcement on monophyl.com: 'We expect to follow Ptex with other open source projects that we hope the community will find beneficial. We will soon be launching a new Walt Disney Animation Studios Technology page under disneyanimation.com. It will include links to our open source projects as will as a library of recent publications.' This looks good for open source 3D graphics."

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