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3D Modelling From a Sketch
hargettp writes "Happened to be skimming through the December BoingBoing and I noticed this link to research into 3D modelling by interpreting sketches. Basically, with a pen and tablet and a good Java applet, a user can start digitally modelling 3D structures about as easy as if they were molding clay with their bare hands. It was the demonstration video that made my jaw drop. Impressive!"
Post an avi file on slashdot...Great going! I hope you warned them this was happening!
Hmmm, a markup language based on pen strokes rather than text tags. Pretty obvious really. (After someone else tells you about it :-)
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"...from the helluva-lot-easier-than-autocad dept."
With the latest spate of construction downtown, we see that these new buildings again look like something which was sketched rather than designed...
It was a 48 megabyte AVI file! Nobody got a chance to see it.
.torrent, or used open cache. Now none of us can see the video, and the poor guy has probably had his site shut down by his providor (at least temporarilly).
That really is inexusable on slashdot's part. They should have at least posted a
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I've got excellent karma but I've always enjoyed reading Slashdot at -1. Why? I like the raw tastelessness and counterculture in the -1 or 0 rated posts. I prefer the creativity of the more refined trolls as opposed to the bland groupthink that tends to get more and more dominating in the typical high karma posts.
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When will people learn that linking to a video from a Slashdot article is almost always a bad idea? Think about it, 40MB+ times 100,000+ people is easily into the area of multiple tens of Terabytes! That's abso-fucking-lutely nuts!
If you really want to have people see a video, at least get a friend to setup a bit torrent tracker for it in advance or something, then the site will at least have a chance.
Actually SketchUp is very cool, plus they have a demo that lets you do everything you want for 6 hours of program-run time.
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Very simple to use, and they've thought of everything to make it simpler. Draw a line, and then click near the middle, it'll assume you want to find the center point (but you don't have to).
It's really slick in realtime shading & rendering too.
Wish I had the $$ to buy it, just 'cause it's fun.
Now I've used my 6 hours on my computer at home, computer at work, laptop, and wife's computer.
-Styopa
I don't understand; if it's as easy as modeling in clay, why not use clay? The tactile feedback while using clay has to be much more than using a pen tablet. There is technology that can scan something in 3D.
Perhaps I'm old fashioned...
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"maybe this will give some purpose to tablet pcs."
Us digital artists would already like to have Tablet PCs. We like drawing. I may end up with when when the right combination of price and power comes along. Tablets are good but having the feedback right under the stylus would be quite useful.
"Derp de derp."
I have seen this demoed at CMU it was cool but for the most part it was useless, just a toy. I do have a back ground in 3D so I know something of the subject. Any one looking into 3D animation or modeling for a hobby would be bored with this in 10 minutes. You have no control over fine details, it is worse then trying to sculpting clay with boxing gloves on. If there is a program out there that looks like it can make it so easy to make a 3d model then it falls into one of two groups niche or toy.
Niche; being that it works great on one thing, programs that can take a set of photo pictures into a 3D model.
Toy; like smooth teddy. Microsoft had a 3D program back in the day it was so basic it was more a tool / demo of what Windows 3.1/95 could do , this was before they owned Softimage.
That is my two cents.
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there is already a purpose! and in conjunction with Alias design tools there is some integration, and more I would expect in the future. As a Mac person primarily, i am often put off by Steve's blanket denunciation of platforms (Newton) and technology (interconnectedness--Appletalk vs TCP-IP). I use my tablet to design packaging conncepts, which i export to TIFFS, and incorporate them into documents for clients. I would love a high power Mac tablet pc like device, but i doubt that will happen soon. even on the Windows side, the tablet pc's are generally underpowered for tasks like 3d.
MetaCreations had a product called Canoma that you'd import a photo or two, describe the 3d scene in the photo with basic modelling, then it would create a 3d textured representation from the photos. It didn't make really really wonderful scenes or anything, but the stuff you could do with it in about an hour were incredible.
Adobe purchased the product from MetaCreations and it's not being sold anymore. Perhaps it will come out again in the future to compliment their horrible Atmosphere product.
Also, Java sucks.
~GoRK
Maybe people who post 48MB files on their website should smarten up and use Bittorrent themselves. Even if they don't get slashdotted, it's a wise move if they expect more than a few people to want the file.
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You have to ask yourself what the intended audience and expected traffic of the website are. It's not RedHat posting .isos of its distribution. It's not a movie studio putting out a trailer that it wants to be seen by everyone. It's a university researcher who put up a website to give the curious someplace to go when they hear about his research. In fact, it's likely that he doesn't give a hoot about Slashdot. So why should anyone expect him to handle the Slashdot DDOS that comes his way? I expect that he's too busy working on his interesting research to deal with administering a bulletproof website.