Take, for example, our use of 3D modelling interactively, designed by our TV designers for use in bulletins, that we use online and which allow the audience to interact with.

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"Even if the perfect intuitive 3D modelling application were available for free then still most people would sit idle, staring at the ideal 3D printing app and the ideal 3D printer unable to come up with anything to make, " said Mr Peels.

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To analyse the new material, researchers at the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute are using image recognition software to identify the creatures recorded in the photographs, and 3D-modelling programmes to monitor how the habitats change over time.

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