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Tag Archives: FormFonts
Tight Production Schedule? Dave Blass delivers the shots
By Marc Fredrickson Perspecitve Magazine is the bi-monthly bible of the Art Directors Guild. It regularly displays the best of the best in Art Direction for film and Television. I was reading the Feb/March 2012 issue of Perspective Magazine when … Continue reading
Marauder’s Map.. 3D Holograms from your SketchUp Models
by Fred Abler As the saying goes, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And it’s this dichotomy that, for me, makes the Harry Potter series so charming. By flipping the context, much of today’s internet technology still looks… … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Holographic Technology, Services, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Tools
Tagged 3D Holographic Battle Maps, 3D Maps, 3D point clouds, advanced technology, Army, army intelligence, Arthur C. Clarke, Azkaban, battle maps, battlefield tech, cartography, flashlight, FormFonts, glasses free 3D, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, holograms, HoloTek, Houston, magic, Maps, marauder's map, Sirius Black, Sketchup, SketchUp Holograms, U.S. Army, wand light, wands, wizards, Zebra technologies
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Converting a SketchUp model to a Revit Family – Video
By Russell Davidson and Marc Fredrickson Awhile back we posted the process of taking a SketchUp model and converting it to a Revit family. The process we detailed the steps we go through to get a model into Revit that would … Continue reading
DiWIRE – 3D Wireforms..from your SketchUp files
by Fred Abler I’ve always loved Alexander Calder. He was shabby, irascible, and brilliant in almost any media. The prolific American artist expressed himself effortlessly in sheet metal, wire, plywood, string, free-carving, and paint. And quite often, a combination of … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Artists, Maker Movement, Services, SketchUp, Tools
Tagged .obj, 3D printer, 3D Sculpture, 3D Sketch, 3D Wire forms, Adobe Illustrator, Alexander Calder, aluminum wire, DiWire, DIY wire bender, FormFonts, FormFonts 3D, FormFonts 3D Models, Fred Abler, Inkscape, Maker Movement, makerbot, marco perry, open source, Pensa, Pensa Design Consultancy, Sketchup, SketchUp Pro, springback, vector graphics, wire bending, wire sculpture
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Raster Revolution (TM)
by Fred Abler, CEO of FormFonts 3D When I was a young architecture student studying in Denmark, I attended a brilliant dinner at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It was an invitation only affair, and much of the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, History, Rendering, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D content, 3D Raster, Bryn Fosburgh, content creation, CT Scans, Cubism, Danish Royal Academy of Art, Denmark, DIS, FormFonts, FormFonts 3D Models, Fred Abler, Jorn Utzon, Kingo Houses, Kingohusene, LIDAR, measurement, Point Clouds, Pointillism, Pointools, Raster Revolution, Seurat, Sketchup, Spar Point Group., TRIMBLE, Voxel data, Voxels
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Direct DC
by Fred Abler The summer I was 11, my cousin and uncle helped me build a large scale model of a tug-boat. I have always loved Tug boats. Who doesn’t.. they just look Tough! Fig.1 – FormFonts 3D Model … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, For Fun, History, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged ABB, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Converters, DC, DC Grid, Direct Current, Direct DC, FormFonts, FormFonts3D, Fred Abler, Mr. Darby Tugboat, OnBoard DC, OnBoard DC Power Systems, Tugboats, University Research
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Towards a ‘Sixth Sense’
by Fred Abler I admit to a weakness for GeoPorn. I am not ashamed. I subscribe to all the cable channels : Discovery, NatGeo, Science Channels (both 1 and 2), The BBC, and the Travel Channel. My all-time favorite shows … Continue reading
Posted in Augmented Reality, Theory & Concepts, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D Models, 3D Planning, Architecture, Augmented Reality, Continuous Partial Attention, David Pogue, Design, digital design, Feelspace, FormFonts, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Fred Abler, GeoDesign, geomagnetism, GeoPorn, GIS, l'espace indicible, Magnetic Research, NOVA, Our Magnetic Earth, rare earth, Sharks, Sixth Sense, Sketchup, virtual design, Voxels
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Hey Algorithm, It’s a flat plane
By Marc Fredrickson Okay, I’m trying to be positive because I’m very excited about the emerging technology, and it will get there–there, being good enough to actually use–but I’m tired of seeing scanned buildings and interiors that are in reality … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theory & Concepts
Tagged 3d capture tool, 3D content, 3D Models, FormFonts, FormFonts 3D, FormFonts 3D Models, model from photograph, model making
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