The Real-View Co. is promising to unveil an affordable 3D desktop scanner during CES 2009 that uses the latest in medical imaging technology. The machine scans objects with its dual camera 'hook' to ...

Iowa State's MakerBot Replicator printing the Earth on Oct. 28 during the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver. Whether they're cracking open rocks or scanning tiny changes in topography, ...

The Holography and Metamaterials (HaM) Lab in the Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics at the University of Dayton has done pioneering work in dynamic and digital holography over its last 10 ...

PhD student Yu Wang 'vibe-coded' a 3D ice sheet modelling tool to “peel back the ice to uncover a hidden world”.

Reddit users are circulating a photo of an unusual, 3D topographic map of Texas as it appeared at the end of the republic era in 1845. The map maker, whose Reddit handle is 3dmapart, said it was made ...

[Photo: courtesy Pangea] Pangea started out as the side project of the industrial designer Tom Percy, who has a love of water (he’s a windsurfer, water skiier, and sailor). The first map he made was ...

A mapping information center in Lanzhou Military Region, in Northwest China’s Gansu province, recently invented the first 3D topographic map in China – the Lanzhou downtown 3D topographic map, Lanzhou ...

After over four billion miles and 10 years, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe reached its target to become the first-ever spacecraft to orbit a comet. Since then, we've received a slow trickle ...

CNC machines are incredibly versatile tools. At a machine shop, they can machine all kinds of metal and plastic parts. Beyond that, they can engrave various materials including glass, and even create ...

Whether they're cracking open rocks or scanning tiny changes in topography, geologists already work in three dimensions. But one of the most popular attractions at the Geological Society of America's ...