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Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine
Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine
Fri Apr 16,10:19 AM ET Add Technology - AP to My
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK - The mind-boggling speed and reach of
Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They
are powered by words alone.
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What a humdrum existence. The world is so much
brighter and more varied, full of objects and patterns
that defy searchable descriptions.
In hopes of wrapping their arms around more of that
stuff, computing researchers have developed new search
engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional
objects, like airplane parts or architectural
features.
All the users have to do is sketch what they're
thinking of, and the search engines can produce
comparable objects.
"The idea of information and knowledge, and retrieval
of knowledge, has been something I've been intrigued
with for a long time. This gives it a more solidified
meaning," said Karthik Ramani, a Purdue University
professor who created a system that can find
computer-designed industrial parts.
Ramani expects his search engine will serve huge
industrial companies whose engineers often waste time
and energy designing a specialized part when someone
else has already created, used or rejected something
similar.
Rick Jeffs, senior engineering specialist at a
Caterpillar Inc. engine center in Lafayette, Ind.,
believes Ramani's technology could help the company
simplify its inventory. Jeffs' center alone has tens
of thousands of different parts.
"If you've got to design a new elbow for an oil line,
more often than not, we have a plethora of elbows,"
Jeffs said. But even though many parts are created
with computer-aided design (CAD) software, they are
catalogued such that each has to be examined
separately, a tedious task "that isn't even performed
that often, because it isn't feasible or practical."
With the Purdue search engine, designers could sketch
the part they need and instantly see dozens in
inventory that might fit the bill.
If an item seems close, but not quite right, designers
can see a "skeleton" of the part and manipulate it on
their computer screens
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK - The mind-boggling speed and reach of
Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They
are powered by words alone.
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What a humdrum existence. The world is so much
brighter and more varied, full of objects and patterns
that defy searchable descriptions.
In hopes of wrapping their arms around more of that
stuff, computing researchers have developed new search
engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional
objects, like airplane parts or architectural
features.
All the users have to do is sketch what they're
thinking of, and the search engines can produce
comparable objects.
"The idea of information and knowledge, and retrieval
of knowledge, has been something I've been intrigued
with for a long time. This gives it a more solidified
meaning," said Karthik Ramani, a Purdue University
professor who created a system that can find
computer-designed industrial parts.
Ramani expects his search engine will serve huge
industrial companies whose engineers often waste time
and energy designing a specialized part when someone
else has already created, used or rejected something
similar.
Rick Jeffs, senior engineering specialist at a
Caterpillar Inc. engine center in Lafayette, Ind.,
believes Ramani's technology could help the company
simplify its inventory. Jeffs' center alone has tens
of thousands of different parts.
"If you've got to design a new elbow for an oil line,
more often than not, we have a plethora of elbows,"
Jeffs said. But even though many parts are created
with computer-aided design (CAD) software, they are
catalogued such that each has to be examined
separately, a tedious task "that isn't even performed
that often, because it isn't feasible or practical."
With the Purdue search engine, designers could sketch
the part they need and instantly see dozens in
inventory that might fit the bill.
If an item seems close, but not quite right, designers
can see a "skeleton" of the part and manipulate it on
their computer screens
New Technology Uses 'Glanceable' Objects
New Technology Uses 'Glanceable' Objects
Fri Apr 16, 4:42 PM ET Add Technology - AP to My
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By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, Associated Press Writer
It looks like a size-XXXL chicken egg and glows in
colors that change and waver in intensity as it tracks
qualitative shifts in financial data from the
Internet. But the white plastic Orb was designed to be
far more than a barometer of the Dow Jones Industrial
average, it's programmed out-of-the-box function.
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Adherents see the glowing $150 device as pioneering a
movement where data generated by computers will be
increasingly expressed not on video displays but in
objects that fit more naturally into our lives.
Ambient Devices of Cambridge, Mass. began selling the
Orb a year ago. If the Dow average is up for the day,
it glows green. On a down day, the Orb reddens. The
colors' intensity reflects the extent of the swing;
yellow means the market is stable.
Provided with that basic information, an Orb owner can
decide whether to go online for more detail.
Ambient users have programmed Orbs for a remarkable
array of tasks: tracking job openings in Atlanta,
measuring the flow of visitors to a Boston-based
interactive design agency's Web site, gauging energy
use in a New York City apartment, tracking eBay
auctions, notifying someone when a particular person
is online or a certain number of e-mails have filled
their inbox.
"When you think about the magic of the Orb, it's a
thermometer for the rest of your life," said author
Seth Godin, who writes on business and social trends.
Godin hopes to program his Orb to track sales of his
books on Amazon.com to save time and "increase my
peace of mind."
The Orb's power lies in how can reflect the ease with
which humans process basic visual information.
"It's based on our brain's natural ability to process
many streams of information in parallel," said David
Rose, the president of Ambient Devices, which says it
has sold about 20,000 to date. "Our perceptual system
is great at multiprocessing hundreds of peripheral
cues every second. We do it without even trying.
Today's computer interfaces completely ignore this."
Rose envisions Orbs and related products being
scattered throughout people's offices, homes and cars,
"dedicated to information they care about."
The idea behind Orb came out of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (news - web sites)'s Media
Lab, where "Tangible Bits" research led by Professor
Hiroshi Ishii aims to replace computers' graphical
user interface with tangible representations of the
data they produce
Fri Apr 16, 4:42 PM ET Add Technology - AP to My
Yahoo!
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, Associated Press Writer
It looks like a size-XXXL chicken egg and glows in
colors that change and waver in intensity as it tracks
qualitative shifts in financial data from the
Internet. But the white plastic Orb was designed to be
far more than a barometer of the Dow Jones Industrial
average, it's programmed out-of-the-box function.
AP Photo
Adherents see the glowing $150 device as pioneering a
movement where data generated by computers will be
increasingly expressed not on video displays but in
objects that fit more naturally into our lives.
Ambient Devices of Cambridge, Mass. began selling the
Orb a year ago. If the Dow average is up for the day,
it glows green. On a down day, the Orb reddens. The
colors' intensity reflects the extent of the swing;
yellow means the market is stable.
Provided with that basic information, an Orb owner can
decide whether to go online for more detail.
Ambient users have programmed Orbs for a remarkable
array of tasks: tracking job openings in Atlanta,
measuring the flow of visitors to a Boston-based
interactive design agency's Web site, gauging energy
use in a New York City apartment, tracking eBay
auctions, notifying someone when a particular person
is online or a certain number of e-mails have filled
their inbox.
"When you think about the magic of the Orb, it's a
thermometer for the rest of your life," said author
Seth Godin, who writes on business and social trends.
Godin hopes to program his Orb to track sales of his
books on Amazon.com to save time and "increase my
peace of mind."
The Orb's power lies in how can reflect the ease with
which humans process basic visual information.
"It's based on our brain's natural ability to process
many streams of information in parallel," said David
Rose, the president of Ambient Devices, which says it
has sold about 20,000 to date. "Our perceptual system
is great at multiprocessing hundreds of peripheral
cues every second. We do it without even trying.
Today's computer interfaces completely ignore this."
Rose envisions Orbs and related products being
scattered throughout people's offices, homes and cars,
"dedicated to information they care about."
The idea behind Orb came out of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (news - web sites)'s Media
Lab, where "Tangible Bits" research led by Professor
Hiroshi Ishii aims to replace computers' graphical
user interface with tangible representations of the
data they produce
Re: netbehaviour: Re: [CC] (no subject)
Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
Beautiful -
/*
thanks, alan---a nice one, but i unforunately erased
its predecessor, who was much sleeker and sexier
*/
is the riff done live -
/*
that depends on what you mean by live---
i have a library of audio loops that weighs about a
gig, dl'd from various places---some are packs i found
on p2p networks (shareaza, as opposed to
kazaa---shareaza connects to both the usual gnutella
network and to e-donkey)--and some from b-movie sites
and other weird spots(there's a bit of dark shadows in
there, and some liquid sky, as well as orson welles'
war of the worlds broadcast)(and mothra!)
i tend to mix "live playing"===guitar and synth,
usually==with these loops--the loops themselves are
often heavily processed and filtered (it's rare these
days that a bit of music doesn't spend a lot of time
on my desktop gradually getting mixed down to my
satisfaction---but i'm never REALLY satisfied with it,
i just decide eventually that it's good enough to
stand on its own)
so, no, i guess---it's a very studio-centric
experience---
*/
were you going somewhere / coming
somewhere -
/*
not sure what you mean by this---psychically or
physically? & then there's the question as to whether
that should even be seen in binary;-}
every piece is a journey, of course---this one sounds
deliberately lo-fi, as i was kinda charmed by all the
weird little noises in the background---
*/
what tools did you use?
/*
acid pro 4
my loop library
my guitar
my palm pilot (i have this app called sound pad, a
cute piano for the palm---one octave, but it is the
only one of its kind i've found that responds
dynamically--when you tap a key, the duration of the
note is exactly the time the stylus stays on
it---there's one track of this in there, about midway
through, mixed low, duplicated and pitch-shifted
*/
- Alan
/*
love
l
*/
--- Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> Beautiful - is the riff done live - were you going
> somewhere / coming
> somewhere - what tools did you use?
>
> - Alan
>
> http://www.asondheim.org/
> http://www.asondheim.org/portal/.nikuko
> http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
> Trace projects
> http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
> finger sondheim@panix.com
>
> --
>
> netbehaviour is an open email list community for
> sharing ideas,
> platforming art and net projects and facilitating
> collaborations.
> let's explore the potentials of this global network.
> this is just the beginning.
>
> to unsubscribe send mail to
> majordomo@netbehaviour.org
> with "unsubscribe list" in the body of the message
=====
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Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
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Beautiful -
/*
thanks, alan---a nice one, but i unforunately erased
its predecessor, who was much sleeker and sexier
*/
is the riff done live -
/*
that depends on what you mean by live---
i have a library of audio loops that weighs about a
gig, dl'd from various places---some are packs i found
on p2p networks (shareaza, as opposed to
kazaa---shareaza connects to both the usual gnutella
network and to e-donkey)--and some from b-movie sites
and other weird spots(there's a bit of dark shadows in
there, and some liquid sky, as well as orson welles'
war of the worlds broadcast)(and mothra!)
i tend to mix "live playing"===guitar and synth,
usually==with these loops--the loops themselves are
often heavily processed and filtered (it's rare these
days that a bit of music doesn't spend a lot of time
on my desktop gradually getting mixed down to my
satisfaction---but i'm never REALLY satisfied with it,
i just decide eventually that it's good enough to
stand on its own)
so, no, i guess---it's a very studio-centric
experience---
*/
were you going somewhere / coming
somewhere -
/*
not sure what you mean by this---psychically or
physically? & then there's the question as to whether
that should even be seen in binary;-}
every piece is a journey, of course---this one sounds
deliberately lo-fi, as i was kinda charmed by all the
weird little noises in the background---
*/
what tools did you use?
/*
acid pro 4
my loop library
my guitar
my palm pilot (i have this app called sound pad, a
cute piano for the palm---one octave, but it is the
only one of its kind i've found that responds
dynamically--when you tap a key, the duration of the
note is exactly the time the stylus stays on
it---there's one track of this in there, about midway
through, mixed low, duplicated and pitch-shifted
*/
- Alan
/*
love
l
*/
--- Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> Beautiful - is the riff done live - were you going
> somewhere / coming
> somewhere - what tools did you use?
>
> - Alan
>
> http://www.asondheim.org/
> http://www.asondheim.org/portal/.nikuko
> http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
> Trace projects
> http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
> finger sondheim@panix.com
>
> --
>
> netbehaviour is an open email list community for
> sharing ideas,
> platforming art and net projects and facilitating
> collaborations.
> let's explore the potentials of this global network.
> this is just the beginning.
>
> to unsubscribe send mail to
> majordomo@netbehaviour.org
> with "unsubscribe list" in the body of the message
=====
***************************************************************************
This is as useful as a doll.--Gertrude Stein
http://www.lewislacook.com/
Stamen Pistol: http://stamenpistol.blogspot.com/
Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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This is as useful as a doll.--Gertrude Stein
http://www.lewislacook.com/
Stamen Pistol: http://stamenpistol.blogspot.com/
Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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This is as useful as a doll.--Gertrude Stein
http://www.lewislacook.com/
Stamen Pistol: http://stamenpistol.blogspot.com/
Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
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The world is all that is in this case.
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This is as useful as a doll.--Gertrude Stein
http://www.lewislacook.com/
Stamen Pistol: http://stamenpistol.blogspot.com/
Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
__________________________________
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http://www.lewislacook.com/
Stamen Pistol: http://stamenpistol.blogspot.com/
Poem of the Day: http://www.lewislacook.com/POD
Sidereality: http://www.sidereality.com/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
__________________________________
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