Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us. Despite the importance of shading ...

Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a ...

A research group conducted quantitative individual analysis on the contribution to the strength of the micrometer-scale ...

Yale researchers have discovered a process in the primate brain that sheds new light on how visual systems work and could ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Physicists at the University of Liège have succeeded in sculpting the surface of water by exploiting surface tension. Using ...

The tension these stitches create can warp a two-dimensional fabric into complex 3D shapes, and predicting the final structure of a knitted project challenges crafters and manufacturers alike.

View-based 3D shape classification is widely used in machine vision, information retrieval and other fields. However, there are two problems in current methods. First, current 3D shape classifiers ...

Using heat-activated nitinol metal, researchers have devised a reversible, shape-shifting, conical spiral antenna that needs no discrete external actuator.

How physical forces shape plants from the inside out to generate their complex 3D shapes by University of Montreal Editors' notes ...