More like science fiction than CAD

Amazing stuff: Jaw-Dropping Software Makes 3-D Models From Any Photo don't forget to watch the video!

Sometimes I think that technology moves a little too fast!

Clive

Wow thats great. I wish someone could make one that reads ya mind. That way i would not have to spend 8 hours at a desk designing things!!

Nice find

Brian

Something I have said for a long while is that the software is getting better day by day.

Long gone are the views that you have to make a 1000 off to warrent CNC.

It's getting so simple it's easier to darw a part and machine it than start to knife and fork it from a solid piece.

I have doubts about this stuff

Even people struggle to do it

(Would be happy to be proved wrong)

Computers can't even do the captcha letters when you want to log in

I sincerely hope not, I'd probably end up being arrested - Andrew

If computers were that "smart" every pdf would be searchable, since it only has to interpret text

We haven't even got OCR sussed out yet (optical character recognition)

Edited By Ady1 on 12/09/2013 00:02:22

PDF's are searchable if the person doing the job does it right.

OCR is sussed out, just not at the three and sixpence level.

Shot yerself in the foot bud...

PDF's are searchable if the PERSON doing the job does it right

Aye

If we spoonfeed the computer with punched cards then all is well...

Current internet traffic is running at 37 terrabytes a second

(good luck to the NSA)

Tnank you, Clive. The 3D model-making was interesting BUT one of the accompanying YouTube clips re. the capabilities of quadracopters was totally mind-boggling - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ... apologies if that is a crap way of inserting a link!

Rgds

Bill

If you click on the advanced search options for google, you can tell it to only search pdfs.

Latest versions of acrobat will serach all the pdfs in a location on your computer for a phrase. Great for trawling datasheets.

Neil

Bill,

One has to be so careful with YouTube, one interesting video leads to another then another then another ...

but in this case, those quadcopters are absolutely fascinating and definitely worth the time to watch, the software behind them is amazing.

Thanks for the link, fixed here **LINK** to encourage others to take a look and be astounded!

Clive

WoW

I second that, WOW. Three quad working together at about 10:13 ish.

Clivse, I agree it is very easy to loose time while viewing interesting content on YouTube.

Dave

I've had '123D Catch' on both my iPad and iPhone for ages.

This photo app takes a series of photos and converts them into a 3-D model.

Not sure how it compares though, but '123D Catch' does require lots of photos to be taken.

Geoff - Nothing new, just improves..