Sketch Your Furniture in the Air 86
justelite writes "Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialize free hand sketches."
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
Other uses (Score:2)
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Man, does that ever open a can of copyright worms... Methinks you'd have to be careful to start with a photograph you own the rights to, or that you've already licensed "derivative works" rights to.
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[My sister is a partner in one of the biggest architecture firms on the west coast...]
This is nice... (Score:3, Funny)
The Righties keepin'us down.
What interface are you talking about? (Score:2)
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Sorry, but no. A keyboard is relatively easily useable by a left hander (such as myself). However, a standard keyboard layout does indeed show right handed bias - the position of the numeric keypad and arrow keys as an example.
While it is perfectly possible to use those with your left hand, it isn't as organic as for a right hander, and using your right hand instead would result in a lack of speed and possibly errors, since this is a weaker hand.
Generally, if I
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I never understood the WSAD keyboard use when perfectly good cursor keys exist.
Now my right hand does a good job at handling the cursor leaving my mouse hand free to look around.
In this regard, I would say lefties have a benefit
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When you have side buttons on a mouse meant for your thumb, they become extremely difficult to avoid/use with your pinky when grasping the mouse.
If you get on a machine configured to use them its a nightmare.
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however, i can't stand side buttons, because those buttons always seem to be placed *exactly* where it feels natural to grip the mouse with my thumb and/or ring and pinky finger. then, every time i move the mouse, the pressure i apply with those fingers makes the buttons press. even if the machine is not configured to make those buttons do anything, it annoys me and quite signi
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So why don't you learn to use a mouse with your right hand? While I'm not left handed, a friend of mine is and uses his mouse in his right hand. He types on the number pad with his right hand. Yet, he writes with his left and bowls with his left.
I mean, I can't use the keypad on a controller (PS2, etc) with my right hand, but I'm sure I could learn it if I tried (or had a reason to).
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Not disabled, evil (Score:2)
paradigm shift... (Score:1)
this is rad (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, but no (Score:2)
And even if it did work, what about design details? It would seem not a truly optimal design solution, but an interesting 3D scratch pad concept
Perhaps this would work if say, general shapes were queried against an object database or furniture catalogue.
From the shape and dimensions specified, the best matches in the inventory c
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It's just a really cool demo of the kinds of things you may see in use in 5-10 years. I can see an interface where one would wear some 3-D goggles that would let them see what they were drawing not being too difficult t
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Think of it like a 3-D paint program.
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News for squares. (Score:2)
Very Cool (Score:4, Insightful)
This is the type of story that kind of makes you sit back and realize what a wonderful age we're living in right now. Image - you can draw something in thin air and have it created on demand in a matter of hours. Sure - it's not perfect, and it's not economical to the average consumer, but neither were mobile telephones as little as 25 years ago.
What a horrible UI (Score:2)
As an art project it's interesting, but as a way to actually design anything its silly. What professional designer would use a tool that gave them no feedback? (Well I suppose there's the extruded dingus, but that takes a few hours.)
What material? (Score:1)
This is fairly cool stuff (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, there are refinements to be made. For one, interpreting the motion-capture as spline curves, instead of simple smoothed collections of points as they apparently are doing now, would allow for easy tweaking of the design. It would also allow imposing some automated corrections on the form, like "shift the top of this three-legged table until the center of gravity is on a line perpendicular to the plane of the legs which intersects that plane at the geometric center of the triangle defined by the ends of the legs" (which is to say, "make this three-legged table as stable as possible").
Or, "make all four legs of this chair coplanar in a plane parallel to the plane that best fits the seat, and make the geometric center of the seat lie on a line perpendicular to the plane of the ends of the legs that also contains the geometric center of the polygon defined by the ends of the legs" ("make the chair not wobbly and stable to sit on")
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On the right track (Score:1, Interesting)
If I were talking to a custom furniture maker I would be gesticulating. This device plus a holograph might provide an awesome way to design furniture. eg. I want it this high. Like this? No, a little lower. Like this? Can we slope the armrest down a bit here? Like this? etc. etc.
The other problem is that most rapid
I have to say it (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting for design, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Um, no. (Score:1, Insightful)
Autodesk tried this in the 1980s. (Score:3, Informative)
This was the concept that propelled Autodesk into working on virtual reality in the 1980s. Drawing in 3D on a screen required (and still requires) a complex interface; gestures in 3D looked like a way to make it a freehand job.
Didn't work. Humans can't draw with any degree of precision in 3D free space. Clay sculpting works because of tactile feedback; it's not a pure eye/hand thing. And drawing in 3D free space gets really tiring within minutes. Technically, you can get the hardware and software to work. But it's too hard on the users.
So virtual reality CAD R&D was dropped.
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[fiddles with air-drawing a box and a chair] Well, *I* don't seem to have any problem with doing it (and I'm not a 3D artist, or any sort of artist), but compared to most folks, I have mondo space-relations accuracy.
Chairs and tables, yes, but... (Score:3, Funny)
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What kind of machine? (Score:3, Interesting)
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There are versions of this that can print in metal even, they fuse a metal powder mixed with some nin-metal binder, then somehow get rid of the binder and fill in with more metal.
Dave
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3d miller/scanner (Score:2)
Air guitar (Score:2)
If you can play air guitar, you're already set. Everyone knows what a virtuoso musician you'd be with an actual instrument in your hands. Why not the same for furniture design?
Not materializing (Score:1, Redundant)
Head set display? (Score:2, Interesting)
Wii-niture!! (Score:1)
Agreed.. (Score:1)
I prefer maple, cherry or oak.
Slow news day indeed.
Sexism... (Score:1)
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No one's posted this yet? (Score:1)
I did this but better four years ago (Score:1)