You can fill any shape you have drawn in Adobe Illustrator with a photograph or other image by using a clipping mask. Clipping masks may seem confusing if you have ...

Using Adobe Photoshop, you can quickly fill-in shapes with any color you need, or any of Photoshop's predefined patterns, using the Paint Bucket tool. This applies to shapes you draw in Photoshop, as ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...

When we say that Erik Demaine has spent the best part of the past two decades folding paper into funny shapes, it’s a bit more impressive than it sounds. In fact, as an 18-year-old Ph.D. student (yes, ...

This image shows how the algorithm the researchers' developed can align two shapes by mapping the volume of one shape, in this case a horse, onto another shape, a cow. Their system represents each ...