Direct Dimensions.com delivers news and events about the Laser Scanning, Reverse Engineering, Digital Modeling, and 3D Technology applications that have been completed by this Maryland-based company. http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newsevents.htm Imagine using standard digital cameras and taking 3D pictures. Just point and click, like you do with your regular camera today, and get a 3D image instead of a 2D image. Thanks to an amazing new type of technology from Dimensional Imaging - this is not only possible, but at Direct Dimensions – it's possible today! http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newsevents.php?fileName=DDI_Bmore_Media_ShapeShot_0210 For 3500 years, ancient Mesopotamian scribes pressed reed styluses into damp clay and generated millions of texts in various Ancient Near East languages. Since these documents were written on clay tablets, using a reed stylus, the impressions were wedge shaped, and are known as cuneiform texts (from the Latin cuneus, meaning “wedge”). http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newsevents.php?fileName=DDI_OptoIQ_0110 Baltimore City's technology incubator, the Emerging Technology Center (ETC), announced today that ShapeShot won the first Maryland TechCrawl, a technology show and tell event that was held on December 16, 2009. http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newseventspr.php?fileName=DDI_MD_TechCrawl_1209 3-dimensional scanning and reverse engineering companies are constantly challenged by their customers in various industries to develop new solutions to complex problems. One industry that certainly pushes the limits of those capabilities is the design and manufacture of aerostructures. In November 2006, for example, engineers at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in the Mojave Desert at Edwards, CA were conducting research aimed at lessening the destructive effects of supersonic flight. The LANCETS research (Light And Nozzle Change Effect on Tail Shock) measures the benefits of redistributing aircraft lift to reduce shock-wave pressure, thereby lessening the sonic boom. http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newsevents.php?fileName=DDI_CMM_Quarterly_Airplanes_Fall09 Direct Dimensions, a 3D imaging technology firm, will introduce its new ShapeShot™ 3D face imaging system at the inaugural TEDx MidAtlantic event in Baltimore on November 5, 2009. The TEDx conference will be held at the Brown Center’s Falvey Hall on the Maryland Institute College of Art campus from 7:30am until 8:30pm. Direct Dimensions is sponsoring the TEDx MidAtlantic conference as the Event Collaborator. http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newseventspr.php?fileName=DDI_TEDx_ShapeShot_1109 Trilumen LLC has entered into a licensing agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) for a unique 3D scanning technology. The technology is capable of creating a color-accurate 3D model and image of a small object with resolutions smaller than 5 microns. These models and images can be used for forensic analysis, reverse engineering and quality control. http://www.dirdim.com/comp_newseventspr.php?fileName=DDI_Trilumen_1009