Aug 22, 2015 03:13 AM
http://m.phys.org/news/2015-08-dimension.html
EXCERPT: Imagine you could reach inside your old Batman comic, grab the Caped Crusader by the shoulder, and spin the whole scene around to get a new 3-D view. A new software platform from small business Mental Canvas may soon let you do just that. The technology allows you to draw like you would with pen and paper, except when you put the pen down, the sketch is viewable from multiple directions—like having access to every camera angle.
"I think of it as a spatial drawing," says Julie Dorsey, computer scientist at Yale and founder of Mental Canvas, a tech startup funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). "Fundamentally, the technology expands on what we think of as a conventional drawing or sketch."
The tool could someday enable scientists to create 3-D versions of their back-of-the-envelope molecular structures. Architecture students can gain new perspectives on their building designs. Filmmakers can find new ways to visualize storyboards....
EXCERPT: Imagine you could reach inside your old Batman comic, grab the Caped Crusader by the shoulder, and spin the whole scene around to get a new 3-D view. A new software platform from small business Mental Canvas may soon let you do just that. The technology allows you to draw like you would with pen and paper, except when you put the pen down, the sketch is viewable from multiple directions—like having access to every camera angle.
"I think of it as a spatial drawing," says Julie Dorsey, computer scientist at Yale and founder of Mental Canvas, a tech startup funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). "Fundamentally, the technology expands on what we think of as a conventional drawing or sketch."
The tool could someday enable scientists to create 3-D versions of their back-of-the-envelope molecular structures. Architecture students can gain new perspectives on their building designs. Filmmakers can find new ways to visualize storyboards....