For fans of classic books, half of the fun in consuming great stories is imagining what each character looks like in your own mind. When the eventual big-screen adaption rolls around, comparing ...

Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. The Surface Tool feature is contained in version 6.1 of the ...

London startup Gravity Sketch has officially launched its virtual reality sketching software that lets users create and manipulate three-dimensional objects in mid-air. Now available on Steam, the ...

New Tumblr blog applies facial-composite program to descriptions of characters in a variety of novels--from Dr. Robert Vaughn in J.G. Ballard's "Crash" to Humbert Humbert of "Lolita." Ed is a ...

Human memory is a notoriously unreliable thing that can be easily influenced. That’s good news for criminals and bad news for law enforcement agencies that often rely on eyewitnesses to provide a ...

@Last Software, makers of the 3D sketch software SketchUp, has been acquired by Google Inc. The news comes in an announcement posted to the SketchUp Web site by @Last co-founder Brad Schell. SketchUp, ...

While studying traditional news journalism in college, Jake realized he was smitten by all things automotive and wound up with an internship at Car and Driver. That led to a career writing news, ...

Suspect sketches are frequently released from police departments as a way to inform the public about what a suspect might look like, but a new kind of sketch has a lot of people wondering how they ...

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