Model Building

[wetpaint]

Well this is neat.

blog.pcnews.ro/2006/10/28/sketch-your-furniture-in-the-air/

For those of you too lazy to read all that, apparently the is a machine that lets you: draw stuff in the air and it will be registered into a pooter as a 3D model. Then the machine automatically constructs the model out of plastic, using lasers to carve. Or you can do away with the first step, and just use it to automatically build your 3D models into reality.

They drew stuff:



Then it became models:



And then the machine built it:

[Sgtpepper]

That is so frikkin' cool.

I wonder how much a commercial version would cost?

Pretty schweet.

[wetpaint]

It'd probably be hellishly expensive... And kinda BIG.

But I just wanna buy that chair. It looks awesome. Especially if they offered it in colors.

[wetpaint]

Or MAYBEY...

They could charge a fee to let you draw something and they would make it. Like it would be a retail shop, not you buy an individual machine.

That might work.

[chinchillathekilla]

sw33t!!!
dude i think that would be a good idea....... it might take some practice to draw stuff with your hands, though

[wetpaint]

chinchillathekilla said:

it might take some practice to draw stuff with your hands, though

Yeah, it would, but you notice how in the pics they weren't exact at all, and the table looks all scribbled, but it is still a functional table. I kinda like the look.

But even without drawing it, even if you just made a 3D model on the pooter in Blender or Maya or some such app, automatically creating it would be cool. It should be a shop where you can send them a disk of a model that you've made, and they will construct it, and then you can go pick it up. In full color.

[Sgtpepper]

Yeah, that'd be wicked.

Expensive, but wicked.

[emeraldqueen]

They actually have some personal 3d printers for ~$500
(http://www.solidoodle.com/?gclid=CKDX_cDNxLYCFQNlMgodYwUA3g)