A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
This mixture of bio-mechanics and computer science originated as a teaching aid for veterinary students. Researchers from Bradford University presented their work at the British Science Festival . Collaborations between the group and international film studios are ongoing. Traditionally, motion capture is only used to record the movement of humans. Animals are created directly by animators, but they can make mistakes if the biomechanics are not fully understood - and it is time consuming work. This can lead a film audience into an "uncanny valley", where focus is shifted from the story to the inaccuracy in the animation. Motion capture works by placing cameras with infrared LEDs around an area containing an object, person or animal wearing reflective markers. The light hits the reflective markers and thus the marker's position is reflected back and recorded.he group at Bradford has attached markers to a horse and captured a range of motio...