16 June 2010

Digilog Will Make the 3D Books

The South Korean scientists from Institute of Science and Technique adapted 3 - D technology for books, and they did this so successfully, that the personages of those books literally jump out from pages.

For the experiments they chose two books for children with the Korean folk stories, full of dragons, heroes, jumping over through mountains and other fairy-tale personages.


Basic concept of technology is that the pages of book are equipped with sensors which in combination with the special glasses form 3 - D animation for readers. If users incline or turn a book, animation, in turn, similarly changes position.

It took about three years for scientists to create special software for this project. The creators of book consider that later similar technology will definitely find application in different areas of everyday life, however it will not happen in the nearest future. It will take time for products based on this technology to become available to a mass audience.