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Texture Replacement

Dots Gloves Touch Screen Gloves

Dots Gloves makes a whole lot of cool gloves. These cool knit gloves are used to be able to register on touch screens with out removing the glove. They come in left or right handed and are usable with resistive and other models with capacitive screens (iPhone users can rejoice). This version is for resistive touch and have rounded metal tips that wont scratch your screen. Really cool for $10.00.

Color changing clothing

Our weekend article addresses the dream of changing the color of clothing with the blink of an eye, or at least the push of a button.Two German computer graphics researcher, Volker Scholz and Marcus Magnor, developed a texture replacement technology that allows movie editors to change the color and pattern of the outfit from their actors long after the video is shot.

No need to spend money for different outfits in a movie, just run this software over it and green gets blue or square gets polka dots. How fantastic would this be if it works in the real world?

Texture replacement is fairly simple on computer generated bodies like in the animated movies coming out from Disney and Co.

The amazing point of the texture replacement technology from the German researchers is: ..read more