{"id":12201,"date":"2006-10-29T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/3d-sketching-in-space-potato-gun-in-pdf-c.html"},"modified":"2006-10-29T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T11:03:50","slug":"3d_sketching_in_space_potato_gun_in_pdf_c-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/3d_sketching_in_space_potato_gun_in_pdf_c-2\/","title":{"rendered":"3D: Sketching in space; Potato gun in PDF; &#038;c."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The team  at Front Design (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/03\/720_hours_light.html\">previous<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oNF5M3IXRbE&amp;eurl=\">demonstrate in this video<\/a> how they sketch freely in the air using nothing more than a pen, while a system of cameras captures the strokes in 3D space.&#160; From there a laser solidifies liquid plastic layer by layer.&#160; Ultimately the finished piece of furniture rises from the molten bath T2-style.&#160; Wicked. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/technology\/front_design_sketch_furniture_wow_4865.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The crew at Make Magazine uses the 3D capabilities of Adobe Reader to good effect in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/10\/make_a_spud_gun.html\">their most recent issue<\/a>, using PDF to display a 3D representation of the &quot;spud gun&quot; they describe building.&#160; (If you haven&#8217;t updated Reader in a while, this might be a good time to grab the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/acrobat\/readstep2.html\">version <strike>8.0<\/strike><\/a> [Update&#8211;Whoops, not quite yet; but the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/acrobat\/readstep2.html\">7.0.8<\/a> will do the trick].) [<a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/make_3d_pdf_of_1.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/zcorp.com\/products\/zscanner700.asp?ID=1\">ZScanner 700<\/a> describes itself as &quot;the first self-positioning, real-time surfacing, 3D laser scanner.&quot;&#160; Translation: for about $40k you can walk around any object, scanning it in real time, sucking the results into your laptop via FireWire. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/technology\/zscanner_700_by_zcorp_4837.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Front Design (see previous) demonstrate in this video how they sketch freely in the air using nothing more than a pen, while a system of cameras captures the strokes in 3D space.&#160; From there a laser solidifies liquid plastic layer by layer.&#160; Ultimately the finished piece of furniture rises from the molten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}