Meghan Markle revealed that she met Prince Harry on the social media site!

In the new documentary series that was released on Netflix recently, Meghan Markle revealed that she met Prince Harry on the social media site. In the docuseries, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed how their love story started in the summer of 2016.

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"I was scrolling through my feed, and one of my friends and someone who was a friend had this video of the two of them, like a Snapchat," Harry said. Then he revealed that after seeing a photo of Meghan in Snapchat's dog filter, he recalled saying, "Who is THAT?" Then, Meghan revealed how her friend told her that Prince Harry was showing interest in her. "I said, 'Who's that?'" she recalled. "I asked if I could see his feed. That, to me, was the best barometer. So I went through, and it was just like beautiful photography and all these environmental shots and this time he was spending in Africa," added Meghan.

It was then that they exchanged phone numbers and decided to stay in touch. Soon after, Meghan planned a trip to Europe with her friends but she had no plans of getting into a relationship. Meghan's friend Lucy Fraser, who also appeared in the docuseries said, " (Meghan) had planned a single girl summer, and she had a lot of plans of going around Europe. But fate had other plans, and the rest is history. The couple married in May 2018 at London's St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in a lavish ceremony attended by royals and celebrities alike.

Harry and Megan have been living in California since early 2020, the same year they stepped back from their duties as senior royal family members. They made their exit official in February 2020. The couple has two kids - Archie and Lillibet.

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Aamir Khan, ex-wife Kiran Rao perform Kalash puja at new office, see pics

Mumbai [India], December 9: Superstar Aamir Khan inaugurated the new Aamir Khan Productions office in Mumbai recently.

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He performed puja as per Hindu rituals at his office along with his former wife and filmmaker Kiran Rao. Laal Singh Chaddha director Advait Chandan took to Instagram and shared several images from the puja.

Aamir is seen wearing a sweatshirt and denims that he paired with Nehru cap and a cloth around his shoulders as he set up a kalash (pot) as part of a ritual during the puja. He also had a vermilion tikka on his forehead. His office is also seen decorated with colourful balloons. "Pooja at the new #AamirKhanProductions office," Advait captioned the post.

Recently, Aamir has decided to take a break from acting.Aamir appeared at an event in Delhi, where he talked about his career and revealed he is stepping back from acting for a year and a half. Several videos and pictures from the event went viral. In one of the clips, Aamir disclosed that he was supposed to do a film called Champions. However, now he wouldn't be acting in the film but would be involved in its making. "When I am doing a film as an actor, I get so lost in that that nothing else happens in my life. I was supposed to do a film after Laal Singh Chaddha called Champions. It's a wonderful script, a beautiful story, and it's a very heartwarming and lovely film. But I feel that I want to take a break, be with my family, with my mom, my kids." Aamir emphasized that this is perhaps the first break he is taking from acting in his 35-year-career. "I feel I have been working for 35 years and I have single-mindedly been focused on my work. I feel that it's not fair to people who are close to me. This is the time I feel I have to take some time off to be with them, and actually experience life in a different way. I am looking forward to the next year, a year-and-a-half in which I am not working as an actor," Aamir Khan's communiqué.

Aamir's revelation about taking a break from acting comes months after his film 'Laal Singh Chaddha' failed at the box office.

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Understand the dimensions of a flower in specialized 3D models

Quebec [Canada], December 8: Analysis and studying of the different dimensions of a flower has just gotten easier.

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A research team in biology from the Universite de Montreal, the Montreal Botanical Garden, and McGill University has successfully used photogrammetry to quickly and accurately build a model of a flower from two-dimensional images and transform it into 3D. This is done in order to have greater clarity about the evolution of flowers.

Photogrammetry is commonly used by geographers to reconstruct the topography of a landscape.

However, this is the first time that scientists have used the technique to design 3D models of flowers in order to better study them. They results of their experiment were published in October in the journal New Phytologist. Photogrammetry is an approach based on information gathered from numerous photos taken from all angles. Thanks to the triangulation of common points present on the photos, it is possible to reconstruct a 3D model - in this case, of a flower. Colours can then be applied to the 3D flower using information from the photos. Flowers are complex and extremely varied three-dimensional structures. Characterizing their forms is important in order to understand their development, functioning and evolution. Indeed, 91 percent of flowering plants interact with pollinators to ensure their reproduction in a 3D environment. The morphology and colours of the flowers act like magnets on pollinators in order to attract them. Yet the 3D structure of flowers is rarely studied. The use of photogrammetry has real advantages compared to other existing methods, in particular X-ray microtomography, which is by far the most widely used method to build 3D flower models. "Photogrammetry is much more accessible, since it's cheap, requires little specialized equipment and can even be used directly in nature," said Marion Lemenager, a doctoral student in biological sciences at UdeM and lead author of the study. "In addition, photogrammetry has the advantage of reproducing the colours of flowers, which is not possible with methods using X-rays." It was Daniel Schoen, a McGill biology professor, who first had the idea of applying photogrammetry to flowers, while doing research at Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale.

The first results, although imperfect, were enough to convince Lemenager to devote a chapter of her thesis to it. "The method is not perfect," she said. "Some parts of the flowers remain difficult to reconstruct in 3D, such as reflective, translucent or very hairy surfaces."

"That said," added UdeM biology professor Simon Joly, "thanks to the living collections of the Montreal Botanical Garden, the study of plants of the Gesneriaceae family - plants originating from subtropical to tropical regions, of which the African violet is one of the best known representatives - demonstrates that 3D models produced using this technique make it possible to explore a large number of questions on the evolution of the shape and colour of flowers. "We have also shown that photogrammetry works at least as well as X-ray methods for visible flower structures," said Joly, who conducts research at the Botanical Garden. Photogrammetry has the potential to boost research on flower evolution and ecology by providing a simple way to access three-dimensional morphological data, the researchers believe. Databases of flowers - or even of complete plants - could give scientists and the general public a way to see the unique features of plant species that for now remain hidden. An open-access, detailed protocol has been made available to promote the use of this method in the context of the comparative study of floral morphology.

The goal of free access to natural science collections of this sort is to help stimulate the study of the evolution of flower morphology at large taxonomic, temporal and geographical scales. It is also possible to admire flower models from every angle thanks to a 3D model viewer.

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