26 story has been corrected to say the area of expansion is 60 acres, not 40 acres, in paragraph 2) It looks like any other 3D printer - except it's the size of a crane and is, layer by layer ...

(This Sept. 26 story has been corrected to say the area of expansion is 60 acres, not 40 acres, in paragraph 2) MARFA, Texas : It looks like any other 3D printer - except it's the size of a crane ...

But in three dimensions, things get more interesting—because 3D soft cells, called z-cells, have no corners at all. For example, a two-dimensional cross-section of a nautilus shell shows shapes ...

The researchers devised a quantitative measure of the degree of ‘softness’ of such space-filling 3D tiles, and found that the softest are not compact shapes, but instead develop flange-like ...

Software like Excel can make this calculation easier. Variance is calculated by using the following formula: You can also use the formula above to calculate the variance in areas other than ...

Abstract: 3D shapes captured by scanning devices are often incomplete due to occlusion. 3D shape completion methods have been explored to tackle this limitation. However, most of these methods are ...