IMAX: movies with a third dimension that makes you duck
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Imax Corp. is producing and screening 3 dimensional movies. The films are recorded on 70mm cameras equipped with 2 lenses and 2 rolls of film. The resulting films are shown using 1 of 2 methods where the camera is sychronized with viewers audience members wear like glasses. In the first method, a mechanical shutter on the projector alternates the left and right images to give the illusion of depth. In the second, the film projector alternates between illuminating the left and right films, which are shown and viewed through polarized lenses.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Transferring every real-life shimmy and shake to the PC screen
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Computer animators utilize motion sensors and electromagnetics to track live movements in order to transfer the images onto animated characters. Actors wear special suits equiped with sensors and make movements while being bombarded by magnetic waves. The data is relayed from a body-pack to a workstation where the animator can use a joystick to apply to movements to cartoon characters.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Untangling the Web's languages
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The global expansion of Internet use will soon require large amounts of foreign language translation software. Although English is the dominant language used on the Internet, many companies are realizing that many potential customers can only be reached in their own language. New companies are creating innovate technologies for facilitating machine-based translation.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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