Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine 140
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features. All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects."
Dupe (Score:3, Informative)
Previous /. article (Score:4, Informative)
Even 3D developers will be confussed (Score:3, Informative)
Turbo squid is better [turbosquid.com] for artists.
And 3D objects don't get better with age (at least not yet)
This will be GREAT for the production industry (which has moved off shore) as users will be able to forget their skills of automatic recall when it comes to part recognition and sucumb to the all mighty 3D shape database.
Re:again ? (Score:2, Informative)
Well it's not exactly the same thing, the article posted before was about Purdue's shape searching engine [slashdot.org] while this article is about Princeton's 3D model search [princeton.edu]. Same topic, different search engines.
3D Search Engine Screenshots (Score:3, Informative)
try it. (Score:2, Informative)
3d model search engine [princeton.edu]
Re:try it. (Score:2, Informative)
Dok