I have been writing about 3D Printing (also called Additive Manufacturing) for over 20 years. At first the technology was used for rapid prototyping. Over the past few years, however, …
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A la vitesse à laquelle évolue l'impression 3D, le futur est très proche !
Avec la poussée de l'impression 3D, la possibilité de numériser des objets en 3D prend une nouvelle importance. Ça tombe plutôt bien, de nouvelles méthodes viennent révolutionner ...
L'impression 3D au service de la santé. Probablement la plus belle application de cette technologie. Et particulièrement adaptée à la fabrication de prothèse qui pourront évoluer en fonction de la croissance d'un enfant !
SenseFly, marque spécialisée dans les drones professionnels affiliée au groupe Parrot, a mis en ligne une vidéo sur la reconstruction détaillée d\'une montagne à partir de plus de 2000 photos [...]
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Utilisation de photos aériennes pour la reconsitution en 3D d'une montagne. Impressionnant !
Voici la première bibliothèque d'architecture Française d'objets 3D HD avec ou sans textures, libres de droits. Assemblez nos divers bâtiments avec nos voiries et construisez votre ville. Achat en pack ou à l'unité.
Today sees the release of Cheetah 6.0. The biggest change in v6.0 is, without a doubt, the smooth integration of the industry-proven Bullet physics engine for the simulation of rigid-body and soft-body dynamics. No matter if you want to spill a bowl of marbles onto the floor or to simulate a waving flag in the wind: Cheetah3D 6.0 can handle it with just a few mouse clicks.
In addition to the new dynamics features, Cheetah3D 6.0 adds support for Isosurfaces (Metaballs), the keying of mesh vertices and spline control points, improved iBooks Author compatibility, an upgraded FBX SDK, support for 16-bit textures and much, much more.
As promised, I wanted to follow up on my Eames series with a few pointers about the materials created for the chairs. This is the first in a series of mini how-to tuts about materials.
The Eames chairs are a good place to start. They all use materials that are meant to show some age, a certain vintage quality and patina, yet are as simple as materials can get. They are a good way to demonstrate how materials can be made to look realistic without necessarily using complex, multi-layered setups that would take a long time to render. I will explore more complex materials later on (indeed, I’m planning a post just about multi-layered mats), but, for the sake of economy, I only use them in my work to achieve effects that cannot be obtained with single-layer mats.
Jusqu’ici, le champ d’application de l’Oculus Rift se limitait aux jeux vidéo. Mais dans un futur très proche, le casque de réalité virtuelle pourra être utilisé pour fournir de nouvelle expérience cinématographique.
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L'expérience doit être absolument saisissante... mais à la place de la jeune femme sur la photo, j'éviterais de me tenir comme cela au somment d'une montagne avec un casque de réalité virtuelle sur le nez ;-)
Dr. Rita Kandel is Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and along with a staff of over 200 medical professionals, Kandel and her team are attempting to use 3D printing technology to build new tissues to replace human joints damaged by injury or disease. Dr. Kandel says those replacement parts will be built in her lab. And they'll be built within the next five years. The Mount Sinai hospital researchers say they've developed their technique – which uses a patient's own tissues – to replace human bones and that those bones are created by a 3D printer.
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Une présentation et quelques bons conseils pour débuter avec 123D Catch d'Autodesk, un logiciel (ou plutôt un service en ligne) permettant de modéliser en 3D à partir de photos.
Considering the complex nature of digital design, it seems odd that there isn’t more 3D input hardware.
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Nous sommes à deux doigts de pouvoir manipuler en réalité virtuelle des modèles 3D complexes. Même si je n'imagine pas travailler avec un capteur de mouvement de ce type pendant des heures d'affilée, c'est quand même intéressant.
Sortiraparis Salon 3D Printshow 2013 au Carrousel du Louvre Sortiraparis L'Espace Architecture : espace d'exposition consacré aux dernières innovations dans les domaines de la construction et de la conception, avec des exposants spécialisés et des...
Launched at the AIA National Convention and Design Expo, in Washington, DC, the new Shaderlight Cloud Rendering service offers up to 30x faster performance rendering out animations in SketchUp and 5x faster scenes, delivering high resolution, photorealistic visualizations direct from SketchUp in hours, not days.
Having visited Belgium it’s easy to return weighed down, usually by chocolate and beer, but Stephen Holmes returned from Materialise World 2012 heavy in thought following an interview with the company’s CEO Wilfried Vancraen Materialise World is a bi-annual event taking place in Materialise’s hometown of Leuven that covers not only what can already be achieved using 3D printing tools, but what additive manufacturing can provide in the very near future.
I never heard of Peter and Alison Smithson and their Upper Lawn Pavilion that they designed for themselves as a weekend house. Loving brutalist architecture, I have to thank Lasse Rode form studio xoio for doing such a remarkable 3d recreation of this house.
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