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This morning, the Local Motors website got a little bit of an update. As speculated yesterday, the automotive-centric design community is getting some software lovin’ from Siemens PLM in the form of a new software release. Solid Edge Design1. This new iteration of Solid Edge is a scaled down version of the full-blown synchronous modeling tool and with it comes a little catch.
Whilst walking down the path, she found the cracks within the garden wall expanding and contracting with a vibrant rhythm. Not only had she just noticed this, when a wee rabbit popped its head through a larger crack, turning its head toward her saying, “I am made of fur and kinks, but look in my mouth and you’ll find these links!”
Jonas De Ro – Brilliant building-scapes and colors from digital concept artist Jonas De Ro. Thanks Rod!
Vintage Modern Ads – Viewing modern technologies of today through the artistic lens of yesteryear makes them all look much older. Thanks Rod!
How Sensor size affects photos – A great video that covers sensor size and how crop factor and depth of field are affected the little semi-conductor.
Mac OS UI for Google Reader – Want a cleaner, Mac-style way to read your feeds? Get this Lion UI user style from github.
Legend of Zelda Theme – Zelda fans rejoice. Watch as the 25th Anniversary Zelda Symphony Orchestra records the main theme from Zelda.
Snow White & the Huntsmen Trailer – A live action remake of Snow White could probably not get better than this.
The Rally Fighter by Local Motors. Image via SiemensPLM
Collaborative innovation is the name of the game and both Seimens PLM and Dassualt are knocking at the door of co-creating possibility. Except it’s less possibility and more actuality. This week both companies have revealed their plans to take collaboration to another a place where you can snuggle up with like-minded people via the warm glow of the web browser to develop ideas. Dassualt dished out their dreams at the Dassault Systemes Customer Conference (DSCC). Friday, Siemens PLM has their big announcement about a collaborative engineering effort with Local Motors, with whom they recently formed a Partnership for a “Revolutionary Crowdsourcing Design Approach.” Here’s how it all breaks down.
I awoke Tuesday morning to a disturbance in my inbox. Seven press releases from reverse-engineering software developer, Geomagic. Apparently they had released something… or a few somethings. Indeed they had. Their entire product line received a fresh, new update in the form of Geomagic Studio 2012, Geomagic Wrap 2012 and Geomagic Qualify 2012. Geomagic creates software that allows you to take scanned data and convert it into ussable 3D data across programs like SpaceClaim, SolidWorks Creo Elements/Pro, Inventor and CATIA. Here are the juicy bits from the geometry lovin’ magic makers.
Who cares about the Cloud, when the ability to grab our models is out there? Virtually, that is, in a very awkward, ‘why is this sneeze guard in front of me’, ‘dangit I spilled the ranch dressing on the sunflower seeds’ type of way. Yet, as we fall down the rocky gorge of 3D software technology, with each sharp outcropping shattering another rib as we smile gleefully at the pain and possibility of unlimited data manipulating potential, the idea of direct interaction with our model becomes more real. All compounded and emotionally secured by endless iterations of 3D geometry that haunt our dreams throughout the night. Fabulous times. But, which way will it go? Will we touch the 3D data or will it simply see where we are and adapt accordingly? Or both?
Dividing the darkness, down to the misty sub-structure, it leapt. Mechanical echo of rusted legs and a daggered stench spilled the pathway’s lair. And deeper still, lying in mud and time, the chalice, filled with the oil of these links.
Aaron Beck – Concept artist and phenomenal painter, illustrator and photographer. Plenty of bots and concepts from movies like Avatar.
1958 San Fran – Imagine what San Francisco looked like in 1958. Now stop and take a look at what it actually looked like in 1958.
Behind the scenes Star Wars – Who wouldn’t love to see the scenes behind the riveting dialogue of such a famous movie such as Star Wars.
Westlake Zombie Preparedness – If you didn’t have a hardware store that was as savvy to survival as Westlake, you would most likely be dead.
Epic Art – Of course, when good ol’ Abe Lincoln read the Gettysburg address from the back of a bear holding an M-16, well… history was made.
Interactive Sci-fi/Fantasy Guide – Can’t decide between space bugs or magical swords? This interactive guide will help you choose between the top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
How much does the Internet weigh – Guess. You can hold it in a spoon, pop it in your mouth or drizzle it over ice cream. This video explains if all. Thanks Daniel!
There are two things that will make your fingernubs smile. One is slamming them fist first into fresh strawberry jam. The other, a wearable 3D mouse… that fits on your fingertip. Now, it could be that you’ll interface with machines with a device that hangs around your neck, but a four-button 3D mouse with programmable gestures that slips around your fingertip and is developed to interact with the 3D models/environment you enjoy? That’s impressive. Nick Mastandrea of Innovative Developments is the brains behind the possibilities. His product is called the Mycestro. We spoke with Nick about how the idea came about and where the technology is headed.
There are some robots that take me back to my childhood, like this skateboard-mounted, paint-spraying graffiti machine whipping an arduino-driven pendulum arm around. Not that I went around spray-painting objects, but that I was often attached to a pendulum arm, but who wasn’t, right? It’s just the sort of thing that may have inspired So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi to create this artsy automaton. The Senseless drawing bot is an art installation, and as with all art installations of this variety, interprets the act of vandalism in a pure, programmatic fashion.
If you haven’t seen the cranium-scorching, rendering research of Kevin Karsch, watch it, we’ll wait… Now that your brain is charred and crumbling like so much burnt popcorn, you can well understand why, after seeing this video, we had to get the low-down from Kevin himself. So… we blind folded him, spun him around, drugged him, packed him in a shipping container, and shipped him off to SolidSmack HQ for questioning (not true). While image-based modeling isn’t unheard of, Kevin and team are approaching new ways of inserting 3D objects into 2D scenes, and as Kevin explains, images are just the beginning.
You’ve got loads of ideas from portable candy launchers to cheese grating iPhone cases, but steps in the process (and your evil arch-nemesis Tim “criticizes everything” Jerksteen) has got your design mojo, motionless. Never fear! Another idea funding, “slam that design process in the face,” product site is here and it’s absolutely delicious… in fact, it’s Ideacious. While it has similarities to what you may have seen, they’re setting this up to be a shop that cuts through the craziness involved along the product production path and they’ve laid it all out very well. Take a look.
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