Snapchat reintroduces 2D avatars after users rejected 3D ones

It’s been a couple of years since Snapchat made the shift to 3D avatars. The company said at the time that it gave users more ways than ever to represent themselves. Two years later, the complaints ...
GitHub

Redot Engine

Redot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making ...
IEEE

A Multichannel Hybrid 2D–3D-CNN for Hyperspectral Image Classification With Small Training Sample Sizes

Abstract: This article presents an innovative multichannel hybrid 2D–3D-convolutional neural network (MH-2D-3D-CNN) model specifically designed for the challenging task of hyperspectral image ...
CNN

This 3D-printed, carbon-absorbing bridge is inspired by bones

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...
Sky

Man who used 3D printer to make gun parts guilty of terrorism and firearms offences

A man who used a 3D printer to make parts of a gun has been found guilty of terrorism and firearms offences, the Metropolitan Police said. Counter-terrorism officers found Robert Adamski had printed ...
IEEE

3D Point Cloud Pre-Training with Knowledge Distilled from 2D Images

Abstract: The success of pre-trained 2D vision models can largely be attributed to their ability to learn from large-scale datasets. However, compared with 2D image datasets, current pre-training data ...