The output is a photorealistic 3-D rendering of your face that you can swipe from side to side.

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The Unreal Development Kit for Apple devices will include tools for advanced 3-D rendering, lighting, animation and other effects.

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Glasses.com, a new venture from 1-800 Contacts, which in turn is a subsidiary of the big insurer Wellpoint, is set to unveil a new try-on technology in a couple of months that will let you see how dozens of pairs look on a 3-D rendering of your face.

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The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.

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Google also said that it has new 3-D imaging and rendering technology, which will extract more dat from the higher-resolution aerial photographs captured by a fleet of planes working exclusively on behalf of Google.

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With conventional 3-D graphics, the computer generates and stores data rendering the depth, shape, color, and texture of the entire house -- including walls, windows and doors that are out of sight.

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