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Archive for February, 2010

3D Printing of a Laser scanned wooden statue, 1meter tall, scaled down and printed on our Zcorp Z450 3d Printer. Rapido3d, London based laser scanning, 3D Printing, and Large CNC machining. www.rapido3d.co.uk

Who cares about which game you like more, which circumstance w/ powers would you want? I think most people would pick Alex for sheer “bad@ssitude”, but Cole would work great in the “real world” where you’d be the only super person, but let’s look at how each was created and what YOU would be if you chose their “origin.”

(! SPOILERS ! SPOILERS !)

Cole got his power from the ray sphere, a device which absorbs bio-energy from thousands of nearby people (killing them and causing a huge blast radius of damage, killing more people), and puts that power, in the form of electricity, into Cole.

Alex was a doctor of genetics that unleashed a deadly virus, but was immediately shot and killed. His freshly dead body fell on top of the virus, which took over and copied Alex’s body done to the genetic level, so it “thinks” it is Alex, with no memory. The character is a virus wearing the genes, body, and personality of a dead man.

Cole can use electricity for top human speed, climbing, strength and overall athletics, but Alex is Hulk-strong and durable. Both have rapid healing, but Alex can shapeshift, absorb the mass of others into himself, taking their abilities memories and looks. Alex can change into a humanoid with a tank shell, blade arms, claws, or a shield arm. Cole can shoot lightning, absorb and generate electricity, bind people with electrical “rope”, heal physical damage, absorb the memories of the recently deceased, electro glide (Alex can glide too), send a wave of electricity which damages as well as throws everything in its path up in the air, and he can throw timed charged electric grenades.

Anyway, if you pick Cole, you’d have to kill thousands of people, but if you chose Alex, you would not be YOU. You’d wake up with amnesia, with your personality but no clue who you were, a virus inside the shell of your former self.

I gues you could detonate the ray shere near a huge prison, or in a country that is a USA enemy. And I guess you could record hours and hours of video tape, recordings and journals to give your self after you are killed and exposed to the virus in an airlock to keep it contained just to you. that way when “you” wake up with no memory, your recordings could reorintate you to your new life.

Whatever, pick one and say why…

Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders Yoichi Miyawaki, Hajime Uchida,Okito Yamashita,Masa-aki Sato,Yusuke Morito,Hiroki C. Tanabe,Norihiro Sadato,5andyukiyasu Kamitani

I’m going into college for engineering/computer science next year and I need to be able to do 3d design. I’d also like to play some games too. Would the above graphics card be able to do that?

I’m going into college for engineering/computer science next year and I need to be able to do 3d design. I’d also like to play some games too. Would the above graphics card be able to do that?

Design and view object 3d

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Rapid Prototyping Using Legos. (note: CAD files were made in mlcad, not ldraw, as some of you have pointed out….) For Mechanics of Manipulations (16-741) at CMU in Spring 2009, Gurdayal Koonjul and Ned Fox (me) made a system for the rapid prototyping of Lego structures. Modelling the structure in mlcad (a free Lego CAD program), the save file is parsed in MATLAB and the output file is then sent to a DENSO 6-DOF arm. The arm picks pieces up from pre-determined locations and places them where they belong. As this was only a semester-long project, there is lots of work still to be done, namely: -Using webcam to find the correct pieces rather than pieces lying on a template. -Being able to construct part even if the lines of data in the save file are not already in the correct order (ie top pieces first rather than bottom pieces first). -Being able to place pieces that have been rotated about axes other than the Z axis. -Other interference problems with end effector. -Being able to parse another CAD file format (Solidworks, proe, etc) and build that model using Legos. If anyone is more interested, let me know and I can provide more information on what we’ve done and some problems we encountered.

I am looking for example of Project Development Life Cycle’s various types. Waterfall, Spiral, RAD (Rapid Application Development), & Prototyping Models. An example or where these models are applied also would be sufficient too.

Thanks in Advance!

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