T3D very loosely related

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Excerpt:

RESEARCH NEWS
1) * Industry-academia partnership reaps results in 3-D imaging *
A government-funded programme to link universities with industry in 
the UK has spun out a new company and is producing exciting applications 
for the film industry, medicine and e-commerce. The 3D-MATIC partnership 
was established with the aim of taking 3-D imaging technology from a
laboratory technique into the mainstream. 3D-MATIC is one of four 
programmes, known as Faraday Partnerships, which were started in 1997 and 
received an initial injection of £1 million each from the UK's Engineering 
and Physical Sciences Research Council. The partnership's projects use an 
imaging technology based on the stereo triangulation of visible light with 
two digital cameras at different positions relative to the object to be 
imaged. The measurement of optical correlation gives the displacements from 
camera to camera. The director of this partnership, Paul Siebert, of the 
University of Glasgow's department of computing science described the recent 
achievements of 3D-MATIC at a UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) 
seminar on 17 February at the IPOT exhibition in Birmingham, UK. 
See http://perl.spie.org/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=1547