The MIT Simulation and Sketch Board
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This video shows this experimental sketch board with simulation software attached. Cool :cool:
Eduardo Diaz site | english blog | spanish blog
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This video shows this experimental sketch board with simulation software attached. Cool :cool:
Eduardo Diaz site | english blog | spanish blog
Repost (I think, didn't bother watching the video again)
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This video shows this experimental sketch board with simulation software attached. Cool :cool:
Eduardo Diaz site | english blog | spanish blog
This video is awesome! On the other hand, I wonder if they can extend the capabilities so that the software can really be used by some design engineers without getting into something that start to misunderstand what the user really want to do. I am sure that the MIT guys write very clean code but I doubt you can endlessly increase the number of symbol recognised and the number of simulation functions without getting the software unusable. If they could the CAD/CAM companies would have to rethink their software... However, I heard about some similar projects designed for kids by some game companies who completely failed.
___________________________________________________________ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time - George Orwell
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This video is awesome! On the other hand, I wonder if they can extend the capabilities so that the software can really be used by some design engineers without getting into something that start to misunderstand what the user really want to do. I am sure that the MIT guys write very clean code but I doubt you can endlessly increase the number of symbol recognised and the number of simulation functions without getting the software unusable. If they could the CAD/CAM companies would have to rethink their software... However, I heard about some similar projects designed for kids by some game companies who completely failed.
___________________________________________________________ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time - George Orwell
Physics Illustrator comes with Tablet PCs and looks pretty much like this. A Microsoft power toy. Don't know if it works with just a mouse but it should. I believe source code is available.
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This video is awesome! On the other hand, I wonder if they can extend the capabilities so that the software can really be used by some design engineers without getting into something that start to misunderstand what the user really want to do. I am sure that the MIT guys write very clean code but I doubt you can endlessly increase the number of symbol recognised and the number of simulation functions without getting the software unusable. If they could the CAD/CAM companies would have to rethink their software... However, I heard about some similar projects designed for kids by some game companies who completely failed.
___________________________________________________________ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time - George Orwell
If one of the last examples, the behavior is strongly dependent on mass, spring constant, initial conditions. I strongly believe the values they work with are tuned so it "looks good in most cases". And of course an equivalent interface to adjust these things is doable. For reasonable design work, it will become a complex, messy interface nonetheless, and it's impractical without a tablet or similar. However, it's an very interesting approach and I hope some good impulses come out of it.
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This video is awesome! On the other hand, I wonder if they can extend the capabilities so that the software can really be used by some design engineers without getting into something that start to misunderstand what the user really want to do. I am sure that the MIT guys write very clean code but I doubt you can endlessly increase the number of symbol recognised and the number of simulation functions without getting the software unusable. If they could the CAD/CAM companies would have to rethink their software... However, I heard about some similar projects designed for kids by some game companies who completely failed.
___________________________________________________________ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time - George Orwell
François Gasnier wrote:
I am sure that the MIT guys write very clean code
I doubt that. Most code I've seen that came out of a college campus was utter crap. Nobody teaches software development as a craft.
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