
Design wizardry. In Japan, Front Design combines motion capture of invisible pen strokes and rapid prototyping in the Sketch Furniture Project.
The result: the drawings materialize into real furniture...video is below the jump.

Design wizardry. In Japan, Front Design combines motion capture of invisible pen strokes and rapid prototyping in the Sketch Furniture Project.
The result: the drawings materialize into real furniture...video is below the jump.
From the clip:
Motion capture technology records a line drawn in the air and translates it to a 3-d sketch. A laser solidifies liquid plastic layer by layer reproducing the sketch as a piece of furniture.
From Front Design.
(Thanks, Andy and Allie!)
There were examples of this in Milan but not of the Capital Equipment / Process.
I shall call it "Mini Me".
S