The biggest problem with 3D, creating it, viewing it, and eating it, is the 2D screen. You ruin plenty of screens trying to reach through to crush the model with your hand. Soon, you may not have to do that. Instead you’ll just use a collapsible pen-like gadget to jab that geometry into submission.
Jinha Lee in her research with the MIT Media Lab has been developing the idea of manipulating digital objects in 3D space. However, instead of bringing the virtual into the physical, she’s smashing the two together and reaching right through the screen with a device she calls Beyond.
It’s been a while since we’ve asked this. Plus, when I was talking to a friend about mixing cheese sauce with green paint and throwing it into a fan, he suddenly slapped me and mentioned this:
“I’m currently using SolidWorks, NX, AutoCAD, TeamCenter, KeyShot, Shot, and Photoshop as my design arsenal.”
I dropped the cheese sauce. I was shocked and amazed. “That’s a lot of different programs.” I said. I imagine some of you live in the same cornucopia of deisgn and management bliss.
For instance, I use SolidWorks, AutoCAD, a homegrown PDM system, Photoview 360, modo and Photoshop.” Quite the list as well, I must say. So now, I’m wondering about you. How crazy is it?
You know how it goes. You buy one, two, eighty quadrotor flying robots at Christmas for your kids. Ya know, because the little gripping mechanism on their belly is just so cute. All of a sudden, the kiddos are being carried off to the mother quadrotor for experimentation.
If you saw the copterbot pulling baby g’s and aerial acrobatics before, you’ll love the team spirit they’ve been endowed with this time. GRASP Labs, University of Pennsylvania, has no qualms about robots and the possibilities they have in serving the greater good our demise. Take a look.
That’s right. Zombie. Killing. Machine. You may think you yourself are just that, but think about it. What if you had an entire factory to take on the jowl-sagging rampage of a hundred thousand brain gobblers? Mmmm-hmm.
There’s plenty of ways to go about designing implements with the ability to knock off an arm, a leg, or a head, but what you need is a process, a factory optimized to take care of the mess for you. For that, there’s the Autodesk Factory Design Suite. There are five ways you can use it to cram conveyor right up the face of the undead. Check it.
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