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Lytro demonstrates features that could be used for 3D
Lytro is the “light field” camera that enables the photographer to adjust focus long after the image was captured. This means changing the depth of field after, not before, taking the picture.
Watching this demonstration video of Lytro’s perspective shift capability, it is a small step to using this to create stereoscopic-like 3D images from an individual Lytro photo:
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Nano 3D printing
Scientists reveal new insights on nano 3D printing | News | R&D Magazine.
Nano 3D printing means the direct creation of electronic components and circuits and other materials. (My son works in this area so I have a nano interest in the subject…)
Also, I think I will move more of the 3D printing info to my main blog at coldstreams.com and keep this one mainly on 3D photography and video.
Why Youtube may sometimes slow to a crawl
Global Caches Everywhere? | A Systems Approach.
Google Global Cache (GGC). GGC is a cluster of Google provided servers installed inside an operator’s network to improve performance by caching popular content locally. Serving content from the edge of an operator’s network eases backbone congestion and relieves traffic on peering and transit links, saving cost and improving QoE.
Some of us live in the wrong cities and watch videos that have not been propagated to servers across the network. Youtube likely replicates popular streams across more servers – whether those servers are close to you “depends”. Anyone else in your neck of the woods watching that video? If yes, it might have been propagated to your area, but if not, it sucks to be you.
This explains why the top viewed, top rated videos all stream great, but the obscure videos I sometimes watch (like sample video output of obscure cameras) never get cached locally to me.
Or so the theory goes!