Adding a
'3D print' button to animation software
Tool
developed at Harvard turns animated characters into fully articulated action
figures
Cambridge,
Mass. - July 31, 2012 - Watch out, Barbie: omnivorous beasts are assembling in
a 3D printer near you.
A group of
graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on
software tool that translates video game characters—or any other
three-dimensional animations—into fully articulated action figures, with the
help of a 3D printer.
The project
is described in detail in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference
on August 7.
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