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3-D Search Engine for Shapes

Posted by Hemos on from the find-the-purty-colors dept.

geoffsmith writes "Just stumbled upon an amazing search engine from Princeton where you can search for shapes. What separates this from something like Google Image Search is the fact that you can actually draw out the shape you are looking for on a little sketchpad. The sketchpad allows you to draw front, side, and top views to provide the search engine with a 3-dimensional construct of the shape."

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  1. No wonder there are no comments .... by Ninja+Programmer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The damn thing doesn't work. I am an artist of reasonable skill (see?) and so tried it out. I attempted the following:

    1. A hand with index finger extended.
    2. An upright pyramid.
    3. A cylinder.
    4. A sphere.
    5. A skull.

    I also put the obvious thing into the text field. It failed to find any match for any of these. The hand and skull, I understand. Missing the pyramid was disappointing, but not matching either the cylinder or sphere?!?! Forget it -- this thing is garbage.