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Shift gears on Toyota’s concept bike with your mind alone. “The minimalistic-looking bike, made in conjunction with Saatchi LA, Parlee Cycles and Deeplocal, comes with a built-in smartphone dock, a carbon-fiber frame — and a helmet that reads electrical brain activity,” Shan Li reports.
Photo: The Toyota mind-controlled bike prototype. Credit: Toyota Prius Project
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Back in 1972, making 3D graphics wasn’t really too much different than the way it’s done today, it’s just more advanced now. The basic concept is still the same though, using polygonal vertices to make up three dimensional models. In this video which was created by Ed Catmull the founder of Pixar, you can see how the first digital 3D rendered images look like.
