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Mexico’s $28B Tren Maya, the 1,554 km railway through ancient ruins, rainforest, and a political firestorm

Mexico’s Tren Maya is a 1,554 km rail megaproject designed to connect the Yucatán’s biggest tourist hubs with inland Mayan sites, while reshaping the region’s economy. This video breaks down the ...

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds

Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.
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GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image

Abstract: We introduce the first method for generating Vector Displacement Maps (VDMs): parameterized, detailed geometric stamps commonly used in 3D modeling. Given a single input image, our method ...