T’nD is a Research Project funded by the European Union that is looking at developing a tool for designers using haptic elements.
Main Goals
Today, industrial designers are used to produce physical mock-ups of products by modeling and manipulating clay. Designers have their knowledge about controlling shapes in their hands, and the skill they have developed is a high value to be preserved. Current haptic technology is mainly based on point based force feedback allowing for the simulation of a local point contact. That is not appropriate and satisfactory for simulating a full hand contact and interaction with virtual objects.
The project aims at developing a novel system for shape generation and modification based on novel haptic interaction and intelligent shape manipulation operators in order to exploit existing manual skill of designers.
All the details are available at
http://www.kaemart.it/touch-and-design/
This document Definition of Scenario and Test Cases provides an interesting insight into the project.
http://www.kf12.com/blogs/uploads/tnd-testcases.pdf
Partners in the project include
think3
http://www.think3.com/en/news/release_detail.asp?id=3584 …
Alessi
and Pininfarina
An interesting approach but is it actually necessary to simulate the actions of a traditional craftsman to achieve a required design ? (Perhaps 3D modelling should attempt to simulate the approach used by a traditional Draughtsman).
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