3-D Search Engine for Shapes

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."

Comments

Damn

[I Am The Owl]

I knew I should've paid more attention in my art class on human body studies!

Re:Damn

[EvilTwinSkippy]

That was my first thought too. Glad I'm not the only mammal.

You have to wonder what would come up with an hourglass shape, or a pair of circles...

EDITORS!: There is something wrong with this story

[geoffsmith]

I just submitted this story, and it showed up as being posted at 4am. Which would explain why it only has 1 comment, it was posted 1 minute ago and yet it claims to be posted 14 hours ago.

Anyone who is reading this, contact (Hemos?) and tell them something is wacky with their clock.

No wonder there are no comments ....

[Ninja Programmer]

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.

Re:No wonder there are no comments ....

[Tablizer]

I attempted the following: 1. A hand with index finger extended. 2. An upright pyramid.
3. A cylinder. 4. A sphere. 5. A skull.....It failed to find any match for any of these.

You must have done something wrong. I tried those shapes and got a big image of a skeleton drinking a beer on top of a pyramid while flipping off some soccer players :-)

Time Travel!

[Rui del-Negro]

Obviously this proves that time travel is possible! I've been making a few tests and I think I know how he did it. Expect a formal announcement in a press conference that I'll be giving last week.

RMN
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Retroactive Daylight Savings Time

[EvilTwinSkippy]

You have to figure Slashdot has been running since 1994. If they moved servers from an area that observed Daylight savings time to one that did not they would have to adjust their clock to make up for all of the springing forward and falling back they missed out on. By my calculation this equates to roughly the 14hours your posting was in Limbo.
</sarcasm>

I thought so too until I read the F'ing Article

[einhverfr]

I tried this too.

It is not searching images, but rather 3d models.

I know how this works !!!

[Tensor]

You draw the three views T,S,F and the engine returns .... whatever it feels like it.

I drew a cylinder Circle, rect, rect, and got a locomotive engine (close), a tri-cycle (!!!), a couch (!!!), a bullet (close), a philipps radio (!!!)

These were repeated several times over too.

Looks like it still needs a bit more work

Re:EDITORS!: There is something wrong with this st

[Weird Dave]

This is pretty common on Slashdot. With slash, an editor can publish a story to appear with any arbitrary time for the article. If the time is in the future, the article won't appear for a while. If it is in the past, it will appear down the line in the submissions. Whenever it happens, people get mad.