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The article provides information on a technology developed at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) which is said to be capable of improving the way images are searched on the Internet. Based on the article, it is difficult to search for images on the Internet because most searches rely on metadata, the text associated with the images. The technology is based on existing systems that are capable of describing pictured objects based on color, texture and lines. However, the technology has the ability to assign each image a likelihood of belonging to categories. UCSD professor Nuno Vasconcelos claimed that technology is 40% more accurate than the usual content-based image-search methods.

Describes a 3-dimensional image of the earthquake fault in California's Death Valley produced by the San Diego Supercomputer Center using its Gstl proprietary research software. Use of colors to represent depth information; Conversion of geological data supplied by researchers into 3-dimensional images.