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Special Features Highlights 2006 p6 of 6:

• Shark spotting fits a pattern
  Pattern-recognition software developed by astrophysicists to locate stars and galaxies could help save the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, from extinction. In the British Ecological Society Journal of Applied Ecology, Australian biologist Brad Norman, programmer Jason Holmberg, and astrophysicist Zaven Arzoumanian of the Universities Space Research Association write that the Groth algorithm could be adapted to identify individual whale sharks.
• Vision detects bottle-crowning faults
  Tooheys (Sydney, Australia; www.tooheys.com) currently produces more than 300 million liters of beer annually from its Lidcombe brewery in Sydney. Two product lines running at 1200 bottles per minute must be frequently changed, and, since each product change requires a change in bottle crown or cap, incorrect bottle crowning can occur.

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