Pop-up is so passe: South Korean scientists have developed 3-D technology for books that makes characters literally leap off the page.
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At South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, researchers used 3-D technology to animate two children's books of Korean folk tales, complete with writhing dragons and heroes bounding over mountains.
Pictures in the books have cues that trigger the 3-D animation for readers wearing computer-screen goggles. As the reader turns and tilts the book, the 3-D animation moves accordingly.
"It took us about three years to develop the software for this," said Kim Sang-cheol, the team leader of the project.
It usually takes a couple weeks for the foreign media to pick up on Korean news, and this is no exception. As Tech Ticker shows, this technology was featured on a March 5th episode of 스펀지:
Here's what GIST had to say about the episode with the "digilog book" (디지로그북) on their website, in Korean, and here's an excerpt of an English version:
The technology for producing Digilog Book whose development is currently under way at Culture Technology Institute at GIST (Director Woontack Woo, Professor at Dept. of Information and Telecommunications) was introduced in KBS’s TV program the Sponge on March 5 (Friday) and attracted a lot of interest.
In particular, the program featured the first books ever produced domestically in the digilog book format - The Temple Bell and Hongkildongjeon. The guests were filled with admiration on viewing a 3D image of a temple bell model and heroes of the books while enjoying vivid sound.
The digilog book is a next-generational e-book that allows readers to view content in 3D, in addition to being able to touch and smell the objects. Unlike virtual reality (VR) technology, in which both content and background aren’t real, augmented reality (AR) experience used in the digilog book is created from the overlay of virtual digital content on physical reality.
GIST and other local universities often make the news, even the English-language news, for their innovations. I usually don't write about them because they're over my head, but one I did mention was the robot flower made by Chonnam National University:
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I once visited GIST for some work-related things and I was impressed by the people there. The KoKo students were nice, and there were a few students from less developed countries studying there, getting degrees and a knowledge base that, presumably, they would be able to take back home and do some good (and I think they were on full scholarships, part of the school's development mission).
Anyway, good on them for being able to do something like this.
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