RobertoOrtiz
06-19-2006, 02:58 PM
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Roberto's Note:
The NO politics rule still applies, we are discussing in this article the TECHNOLOGY behind this.
"He used his immense talent for networking to latch on as an artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), convincing them that he should lead a task force to create the cartoon of the 21st century.
When he opened up his laptop last week at the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in Denver, I was among the excited crowd bunched in behind him.
There on the screen was a moving, chuckling, head-bobbing caricature of President George W. Bush.
Kallaugher (known by his signature, Kal) had sculpted a larger-than-life-size clay bust of the president, which was scanned by laser beams to create a three-dimensional image in a computer.
Then Kal and his young computer assistants could stretch and distort the image as much as their hearts desired and they desired much. The eyes blinked, the mouth curled up, the nostrils flared, and the ears ballooned out and back.
With the aid of gigabytes of memory and video-game joysticks, the creation can be made to react instantly with live performers such as TV talk-show hosts."
>>LINK<< (http://www.bdtonline.com/columns/local_story_165164242.html)
-R
Roberto's Note:
The NO politics rule still applies, we are discussing in this article the TECHNOLOGY behind this.
"He used his immense talent for networking to latch on as an artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), convincing them that he should lead a task force to create the cartoon of the 21st century.
When he opened up his laptop last week at the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in Denver, I was among the excited crowd bunched in behind him.
There on the screen was a moving, chuckling, head-bobbing caricature of President George W. Bush.
Kallaugher (known by his signature, Kal) had sculpted a larger-than-life-size clay bust of the president, which was scanned by laser beams to create a three-dimensional image in a computer.
Then Kal and his young computer assistants could stretch and distort the image as much as their hearts desired and they desired much. The eyes blinked, the mouth curled up, the nostrils flared, and the ears ballooned out and back.
With the aid of gigabytes of memory and video-game joysticks, the creation can be made to react instantly with live performers such as TV talk-show hosts."
>>LINK<< (http://www.bdtonline.com/columns/local_story_165164242.html)
-R