Draw Real Furniture in Thin Air
Watch the video above. Now. It shows a new combination of technologies put together by the Swedish design group FRONT that lets you sketch objects in thin air, records the sketch via motion capture, and then fabricates the resulting object in 3D. FRONT has been sketching and fabbing furniture, but of course you could sketch anything else you please. I was pretty amazed by this (which I found via eightbar, which links to a slightly different video). I wonder, though, whether you get to see your sketch as you’re doing it, or you just have to rely on your own spatial coordination to remember where the lines are that you’ve previously drawn. Also, is this stuff sturdy enough to sit on? No fannies are shown on the chairs at any point. No matter, though, since if those things are problems, they’re problems easily solved. In any case, this is a great new way to get things out of your brain and into the world. I would love to have a piece of furniture I’d drawn in this air — or even one someone else had drawn. Nice stuff.
At one point in the video the woman’s back occludes the model. I wonder if that was done in post-production? The rest of the time the models seem to be simply overlayed over the real image
Most of the fabrication processes along those lines create very strong end products. I wouldn’t be surprised if an even moderately together chair was capable of supporting somebody’s weight.
Overheard in the future: “I prosume furni inworld at 3kea.”
Really futuristic and cool. Its unbelievable. Would love to do one myself. Waiting for the technology to be available to us common mortals.
Very interesting! Would like to see a new way to design things. Easy = good.
Simply amazing, I am very impressed.
Shame that the video is no longer available. I wonder if this could be used to aid with positioning of your furniture, like a live computer model