Software Features

Dynamic partnership reveals the ultimate free kick in 3D

Dynamic partnership reveals the ultimate free kick in 3D

The UK’s leading sports engineers, an innovative British technology company and specialist kicking coach, Bartek Sylwestrzak, have worked in partnership to look in 3D detail at one of the world’s most sought after football techniques. After years of studying these kicks, Bartek Sylwestrzak, a Loughborough University Sport and Exercise Sciences graduate, is now coaching this technique to a number of professional players.

Restoring China’s Forbidden City

Restoring China’s Forbidden City

Loughborough University designers are using the latest 3D digital technologies to help restore ancient artefacts from the Palace Museum in Beijing. The museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is currently undertaking major renovation work funded by the Chinese Government - a huge project that involves thousands of individual historic relics.

Testing: the thin end of the wedge for UK Aerospace

Testing: the thin end of the wedge for UK Aerospace

Software testing is seen as being somehow at the lower end of avionics engineering, claims Brian Luff, with much of it now moving offshore - particularly to the developing economies where the skills are readily and inexpensively to hand. But what threat does this pose to our own home-grown skills base, he asks.

Digitising a Spitfire

Digitising a Spitfire

A 3D digital scanning specialist has captured the very essence of the last airworthy Spitfire MkIIa. The digital data was used to create a model of the aircraft for architect, Norman Foster's collection.

Heading for the 'Cloud'

Heading for the 'Cloud'

Cloud adoption is accelerating across Europe as large enterprises and small businesses alike become increasingly convinced of the business case for this approach to enterprise computing. DPA invited Richard Tinsdeall to review the benefits that manufacturing business might gain from cloud computing.

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