Goldspink has joined other computer graphics (CG) bosses from the UK and around the world at Swansea Animation Days 2002 (SAND) - a 48-hour festival showcase celebrating the latest 3D techniques and mapping the future for digital animation, as 2D methods wane.

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The headlines were mapping out the future.

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Scenario planners eschew precise predictions, instead mapping out possible ways that the future might develop if certain big events occur.

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Google Maps headquarters is located in the idyllic-sounding Mountain View, California, but when I visited to discuss the future of mapping I was ushered into a windowless conference room named after a famous explorer.

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Alfie Ingram, chairman of the Scottish Mountain Rescue Committee, said the new mapping technology would aid future rescue bids.

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Even greater use of 3D mapping for these tasks and others is "inevitable" in the future, according Prof Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps.

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Susan Adams likewise came up with two new names to know next year, Crisis Mapping, an increasingly potent humanitarian tool, and Escudo, the once and future currency of Portugal.

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As a boy he made a workshop in his parents' cellar, mapping out dovetails with dividers while other boys played football, and he courted his future wife with the history of tables, chairs and cupboards.

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