| The Impact on Research
Sometimes one plus one equals more than two
Andzej Piotrowski and Baoquan Chen,
for example, are collaborating on how
to create new design tools using 3-D
scanning. "Together,
we're exploring techniques that neither
of us could have pursued on our own," says Piotrowski.
Working through the Digital Design
Consortium, launched in 2002 with a gift from alumni
Linda and Ted Johnson, Piotrowski and
Chen are finding new ways to turn
three-dimensional data into two-dimensional
images. Using their techniques, architects
someday may be able to visualize
their proposed building designs amid the "real-life" environments
in which the structures will be built. Chen explains that other
possibilities for interdisciplinary
applications of these techniques
range
from online shopping to medicine.
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For fiscal year 2007, the University received $619 million in research awards, an increase of 7.5 percent compared with the previous year. |
