computer-graphics-and-computer-aided-design

Meta’s latest Quest PTC update added AI-powered 3D photo conversion in the browser, easy 3D uploads from your phone, and more.

Ahead of the 70th grand final on Saturday, it’s time to test your knowledge of Europe’s biggest pop spectacular. But can you sort your Loreen from your Vanilla Ninja? Good evening Europe – and good morning Australia! It’s that time of year again, when most of mainland Europe plus a few other countries gather to decide which three-minute pop spectacle will lodge itself in your brain for at least t…

Roman Mars’s pod 99% Invisible is a worldwide hit. Now he has teamed up with the BBC for new series A History of the United States in 100 Objects, an insight into the secret significance of everyday stuff In 2010, the audio producer Roman Mars launched 99% Invisible, a podcast about the hidden designs and inventions most of us overlook. At the time, he didn’t have high hopes for it. Not only was …

Sometimes you want to try a shader without spinning up Shadertoy, without a build step, without anything. Just a textarea, a canvas, and a refresh-while-you-type loop. This is that page: ~350 lines of vanilla JS, a fixed full-screen-quad vertex shader, and a fragment shader you edit live. Compile errors land back in the UI with line numbers; the URL hash round-trips your source so links shared on…

Before GAFA. Before Facebook. Before DOI. Before V=N/D. There was a New Testament, an illness, a road that changed direction, and a Macintosh in a vocational school that the teachers could not use. This paper records the origin point of the civilizational observer whose nine subsequent coordinates map the coming Meta World. The illness was the mechanism of redirection. The Mac — mastered independ…

The PLMC is a new classification of high-performance craft vehicles that operates as the antithesis of the traditional sumptuous hypercar and conventional mechanical replicas (e.g., Shelby Cobra). Conceived as an "island of neg-entropy", the system uses the complexity of software and high-fidelity electronics to absorb disturbances from the environment and eradicate the driver's physical ordeal. …

This research introduces ArASL-EduNet for bi- handed static Arabic alphabet hand-gesture recognition from RGB images. The framework is built on a curated dataset of 11,200 labeled images covering 56 balanced gesture classes derived from the 28 Arabic letters, with distinct left- and right- hand realizations for each letter. Four deep learning models were evaluated under the same protocol: CNN, Mo…

The premise Most mobile games compete on stimulation: timers, streaks, daily missions, push notifications. We wanted to go the opposite direction. Off By One has exactly one mechanic: a grid of near-identical geometric shapes, one slightly wrong. Find it. No countdown. No lives. No nudge to come back tomorrow. How it works technically Drawing is handled by SwiftUI Canvas. Shapes and decorations a…

Why are Nintendo releasing a straight-up remake of the space-flight shooter – with many of its original limitations – rather than a fresh new take? The Nintendo 64 was not my first video game console, but it was my formative one. Getting to grips with 3D movement in Super Mario 64 with that weird three-pronged controller is one of my most visceral childhood memories; the long, long wait for The L…

1. It All Started Because a School Network Sucked 1.1 The Real Origin Story (Not What You Think) Back in 1996 , at École Centrale Paris —one of France's fanciest engineering schools—the campus Token Ring network was slower than a snail on tranquilizers . Students couldn't play games, couldn't transfer files, couldn't do anything fun. Most people would just complain. But these students thought: "W…

Unsplash FindAWall is a secure and performance-optimized full-stack web application for image retrieval using the Unsplash API. The system introduces a backend proxy architecture to protect API credentials and ensure secure communication. Performance is enhanced through lazy loading, LRU-based caching, and responsive image rendering, significantly reducing load time and API usage. A rate-limit-aw…

In the presence of visual culture communication, the creative talents of photography become the core driving force of the development of the cultural creative industry. As the main position of talent training, the university library provides unique support for the cultivation of college students’ creative ability in photography by relying on its rich resource reserve, diversified service space, a…

This article offers a comparative examination of Jean Baudrillard’s and Jürgen Habermas’s conceptions of communication, meaning, and the public sphere. Baudrillard argues that in the modern era communication and information lead not to an expansion of meaning but to its collapse, resulting in the disintegration of the public sphere within the domain of hyperreality. Mass media, accordingly, does …

The fast switching to digital documents in educational and professional life has raised the number of screen-based reading enormously, but it is accompanied by a notable decrease in concentration, constant-distraction, and the inability to continue reading. To solve these problems, the following paper gives a gaze-assisted web-based reading platform that can track the eye gaze of users and tell t…

Low-light images typically suffer from reduced visibility, blurred edges, and corrupted details. Traditional Retinex-based enhancement frameworks have been widely developed, yet they expose a fundamental trade-off: structure-preserving enhancement often amplifies noise, while noise suppression tends to oversmooth critical structures. Addressing this antagonism requires a principled framework that…