Somehow, this weird little device actually makes a decent amount of sense.
3-D design is currently the province of experts, with skills in Maya or Cad; it takes years to become proficient at these programs. A simple, fast and intuitive means for 3-D design is long overdue. But how would it work?
Jinha Lee and Hiroshi Ishii, two graduate students at the MIT Media Lab, created an interface with that very question in mind. "Beyond" comprises a glass table backed by a digital projector, and a hand-held drawing stylus. Pushing on the stylus extends the drawing tip into virtual space--thus, you could draw a diagonal pushing into 3-D by simply pushing gradually harder on the stylus. Check out the video for more clarity: [vimeo 11015834]
Obviously, Lee and Ishii's project is a conceptual prototype. Whether it could develop into a full-blown interface for 3-D design remains to be seen. One problem might...
3-D design is currently the province of experts, with skills in Maya or Cad; it takes years to become proficient at these programs. A simple, fast and intuitive means for 3-D design is long overdue. But how would it work?
Jinha Lee and Hiroshi Ishii, two graduate students at the MIT Media Lab, created an interface with that very question in mind. "Beyond" comprises a glass table backed by a digital projector, and a hand-held drawing stylus. Pushing on the stylus extends the drawing tip into virtual space--thus, you could draw a diagonal pushing into 3-D by simply pushing gradually harder on the stylus. Check out the video for more clarity: [vimeo 11015834]
Obviously, Lee and Ishii's project is a conceptual prototype. Whether it could develop into a full-blown interface for 3-D design remains to be seen. One problem might...
- 7/1/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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