Re: [photo-3d]Solid 3D

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds like the process called stereo-lithography.  Is that what it was?

-pd


At 06:21 PM 10/31/2000, you wrote:
>While we are on the subject of creating 3D from 2D, here is something you
>all have most likely seen or read about. Personally, I have seen the
>process - rather the results of the process.
>
>I worked for MSL, and we were the manufacturer of all Palm PDA Products.
>When we required sample plastic frames, covers and other parts for a
>proto run, we downloaded the CAD data into a solid modeler which created
>a solid plastic part, exact in dimensions.
>
>Granted, not a production process; this was for prototype parts. Think of
>the possibility. You need a part for a stereo realist and you visit a web
>site where you select the part and rather than print on paper, your
>desktop solid modeler recreates the part for you.
>
>I always thought this was astounding technology with far reaching
>implications.
>
>Bob

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