The digital image was then turned into a physical model, complete with hair and eyes.
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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These new ventures will no doubt challenge the traditional four-year residential, physical university model.
It also continues to play to the strengths of a physical store retail model.
Resource pooling is the ability of a cloud to serve multiple customers using a multi-tenant model with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to demand.
While the studies may be disparate in nature, we do see a common thread in all of them: that the issue may not really be piracy, but the effects modern technology has had on buying habits- habits based on immediate availability as opposed to an economic model based on physical copies.
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The dye tracer used in the model has no actual physical resemblance to true oil.
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There's no firm timeframe on the Q10 model, with the physical keyboard, but Heins says he's hoping it will be ready in April.
Then model makers produce 3D physical manifestations of these ideas.
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This feature will enable users to share files between products-123D, 123D Catch, 123D Make, and 123D Sculpt- to explore their creative ideas, or even use that model to create a physical object through fabrication services.
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Furthermore, a follow-up paper by Mikolaj Korzynski of Warsaw University in Poland has claimed that there is a fatal flaw that may make Dr Cooperstock's model a mathematical but not a physical possibility.
If it does, the Iraqis certainly have the human and physical resources to transform their nation into a model of prosperity, civilization and opportunity in a region of the world that has known too little of these things of late.
Few people currently understand the concept, or why they should support it, while energy companies will need to be persuaded that they will have to change their entire business model, not to mention the physical challenges of updating the labyrinthine power distribution infrastructure.
At least seven companies are expected to show 3D printers at CES 2013, demonstrating the potential benefits of the technology for a wide swath of industries and users. 3D printing uses an additive process to create an exact physical duplicate of a product based on a digital model.
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Moreover, the new market entrants are largely based on streaming (not physical DVDs) due to the attractiveness of the business model.
Leaders should emulate this model, and pay heed to the link between mental and physical performance.
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Physical brick and mortar branches, once a staple in the traditional banking model, are now losing value in this era of hi-tech banking products.
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Regardless, from what we know, Xiaomi may partner with Chunghwa Telecom to sell the Xiaomi Phone 2 in Taiwan, whereas in Hong Kong it may utilize the same old online direct sale model to begin with -- unlike Meizu who has a physical shop in the city, as well as a partnership with local carrier PCCW. Now, how about a full schedule for your world domination, Mr. Lei?
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Many of you and your IT organizations began to evaluate and consider server virtualization technology a couple of years ago as a way to move beyond the legacy IT model of having a single operating system instance bound to a single physical server.
BlackBerry diehards will lament the lack of a physical keyboard they'll have to wait for the Q10, a model in the more traditional BlackBerry form.
The model that Nick and I sketched out said that service platforms (often allied to physical product) and external ecosystems, were vastly different from enterprises that tried to collate all their resources internally.
The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.
Heins said the physical keyboard version, the BlackBerry Q10, will likely come out eight to 10 weeks after a carrier releases a model with only a touch screen, the BlackBerry Z10.
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