What’s in the Box?! If Only Surfacing Was This Easy.

by Josh on March 24, 2009 · View Comments

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A very kind reader and master of SolidWorks surfacing technology sent me a really fun link that plays on the idea of ‘unboxing the box’ – as in, removing the notion that surrounds cars of being boxy and inefficient.

It’s from Audi and produced by 1st Ave Machine. They make shaping cardboard look way easy, like babies could do it. If you’ve actually worked with cardboard however, it can be quite difficult to shape. Painful even, especially when that box cutter slips.

Anyway, what I think is especially cool and significant to our 3D CAD interests, is the idea of creating 3-dimensional geometry around us, or rather on us… or us on the 3D geometry. Sound odd? Watch the video to see what I’m talkin’ about.

Tagged as: audig5, cardboard, surfacing, technology

skyap

This ad was shown here in the UK for a while. It is pretty impressive :)
Matt Lombard

very cool. Audi is the Apple of the car world.
bcourter

Don't think that's stop motion, man. CGI, unfortunately. Very well done, though.

Show me a solid model and I'll show you a flat pattern. You just have to promise to actually assemble it.
Josh M

oh yeah, totally CGI. could you imagine the number of set builders they would go through doing this stop-motion. The story on this was featured in 3DWorld magazine.
3Dgeorge

woaw