Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features. All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects."

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Dupe

[Zagar]

Didn't we have a similar article about 3D searching a week ago?

Previous /. article

[jwbing]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/04/142321 0&tid=

Even 3D developers will be confussed

[Wellmont]

Personally i've been freelance developing 3D art and models for companies for a few years now, and i've learned a couple of things.
Turbo squid is better for artists.
And 3D objects don't get better with age (at least not yet)

This will be GREAT for the production industry (which has moved off shore) as users will be able to forget their skills of automatic recall when it comes to part recognition and sucumb to the all mighty 3D shape database.

Re:again ?

[Xeo 024]

i've seen it before on slashdot i guess

Well it's not exactly the same thing, the article posted before was about Purdue's shape searching engine while this article is about Princeton's 3D model search. Same topic, different search engines.

3D Search Engine Screenshots

[CHaN_316]

Larger screenshots of the 3D search engine can be found here and here.

try it.

[invein]

3d model search engine

Re:try it.

[Dok Fenderson]

I drew what I thought was a fairly respectable stomach (respectable if it had been done by a 10 year old with Down's) and it found a chair, a cabinet, and a "Euro Head". Methinks there was a breakdown in communication somewhere down the line.

Dok