If you happen to have a set of vinyl records sitting around, take a look at them. Check out all those grooves that ring around and around, jostling the needle that has made all those tunes that have enriched your life. Now imagine you had that record as a CAD file and you extruded the entire surface, completely out of proportion to the record. That is more or less what a Microsonic Landscape is.
When the days of the pedestal kings came to an end, there was but one way to harvest the sill bugs. The gantry cranes erected by the sillers, once brought forth bountiful supply, and they have run for a thousand years on the essence concocted from these links. Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe – Splendid illustration with…
How do you stop sending your kitchen sets to the dumpster bin? If your IKEA, you bring on the power of 3D rendering. The massive Swedish furniture manufacturer is transitioning part of its photography effort from the studio to the screen, bringing on more virtual showrooms to tantalize your consumer tastebuds and at the same time cutting the hefty cost of continually switching out and trashing studio sets.
After warnings from retired Engineers and seasoned VCs, the World has reached peak hype in 3D Printing. All those Kickstarter campaigns for 3D printers, all those busy CAD artists, all those blog writers who talk endlessly about it (noooo), are going to hit a brick wall. No more cool materials, no more cool designs, no more quicker and smoother 3D printing. Clearly we are in a rapid descent into the ol’ smelly trash heap of hyped products, filled with Segways, New Cokes and Nintendo Virtual Boys. At least, all according to this infographic.
In 1983, the idea of traveling at unsafe speeds through the forest on a rocket, equipped with anti-gravity and a belly gun, became permanently ingrained, sealed and preserved in my young mind. Growing up in a forest didn’t help deter that dream and neither does this video. Aerofex, from Manhattan Beach, California, has been testing tandem-duct aerial vehicles since 1988 and has successfully run trials in the Mojave desert proving the speed and stability of their most recent prototype.