Fun With Foam
Recursive Instruments is two students at the Art Institute of Chicago who’ve recently got hold of some Eyebeam OpenLab technology known as OGLE (for Open GL Extractor) and have been using it to create foam models of various structures from within the virtual world of Second Life. The images above represent the process of mapping and then milling a 3D representation from within the virtual world (in this case, of a sheep from the Electric Sheep Company’s Sheep Island; ESC is, of course, the anchor sponsor of this blog). Follow their progress and see lots more pink images at their blog. It seems only a matter of time before this kind of technology is put to some more directly useful purpose: prototyping, architecture, design testing — this is going to be very interesting to watch happen.
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This looks like it’s useful as packing material to stuff boxes of things you sold on the Internet and then have to mail to somebody.
Does anything that happens on the erm bleeding edge in SL *not* involve ESC?
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