A natural enemy to fire ants (who immigrated from South America) are being reintroduced to their ‘prey’ in the US in an effort to curb the fire ant population explosion.
Someday, maybe in your back yard, a fire ant will be toiling, lugging a grain of sand from the mound. Happy as an ant can be. Then it feels a dart of discomfort, over in a tenth of a second, and knows something is wrong. Its legs tap the soil. It bends and twists, then it goes on doing what ants do. About three weeks later, its head falls off. How cool is that?
Why would you want a Non-photorealistic Camera you ask?
The multi-flash camera’s non-photorealistic images look like line drawings, but have an advantage over hand made line drawings for they are able depict real-world scenes with precision and, most importanly, speed impossible for the human eye/hand. One may ask, why not use good ol’ Photoshop filters to achieve these types of images? Multi-flash is able to detect variations and shape, while Photoshop filters are only able to translate variations and intensity of color. It does not produce intelligent stenciling like PhotoShop’s posturization, but the results are similar and more successful.
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