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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!
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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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.
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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