Developing transparent .gif's for animation showing how a (traditional time) "Line" morphs into a 'Swirl'.

Computing researchers at Imaginestics LLC, have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/16/tech/main612179.shtml
Google Inc.'s picture search program delivers pretty good results but can't actually examine the images it serves up. It just mines the text surrounding the photos, and hopes for success.