The Smithsonian today made available a new online interactive experience that allows users to explore a three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of the remnants of a supernova, or exploded star. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-smithsonian-journey-star-3d-interactive.html…
Tag: 3D
‘Pi VizuWall’ Is a Beowulf Cluster Built With Raspberry Pi’s
Why would someone build their own Beowulf cluster — a high-performance parallel computing prototype — using 12 Raspberry Pi boards? It’s using the standard Beowulf cluster architecture found in about 88% of the world’s largest parallel computing systems, with an MPI (Message Passing Interface) system that distributes the load over all the nodes. Matt Trask, a long-time computer engineer now completing…
This Cthulhu-like creature crawled the ancient seafloor
Paleontologists have named the 430 million-year-old fossil of a tentacled sea creature after horror author H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu monster. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/chtulhu-like-creature-fossil…
The Ground Rules of Life & Existence
Jed Shlackman – Have you ever considered the idea that you create your own personal reality? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/17/the-ground-rules-of-life-existence/…
How Scientists 3D Printed a Tiny Heart from Human Cells
It has four chambers, blood vessels and it beats — sort of. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65257-3d-printed-heart-human-tissue.html
What To Expect From Sony’s Next-Gen PlayStation
Daetrin writes: Sony is unwilling to confirm “Playstation 5” as the name, but their next console is “no mere upgrade” according to a report from Wired, which cites Sony executives — who spoke on the record: “PlayStation’s next-generation console ticks all those boxes, starting with an AMD chip at the heart of the device. (Warning: some alphabet soup follows.) The…
Researchers 3D-Print Heart From Human Patient’s Cells
Researchers have 3D-printed a heart using a patient’s cells, providing hope that the technique could be used to heal hearts or engineer new ones for transplants. “This is the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers,” Professor Tal Dvir of Tel Aviv University’s School of Molecular Cell…
15th-Century Warlord’s Fearsome Sword Now Gleams in 3D
Ali Atar’s sword lives at the Toledo Army Museum in Spain, but you can now see it online in 3D Source: https://www.livescience.com/65098-fearsome-15th-century-warlords-sword-3d.html