No Technical Know-How Needed:

megman · Post by **megman** » 08-19-2011 12:06 AM

Endless Forms Web Site Helps Users 'Breed' 3-D Printable Objects

ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2011) — Forget draft tables and complicated computer-aided design programs: You dream it. Endless Forms helps you design it.

Cornell University engineers are allowing anyone to point, click, collaborate and create online in the evolution of printable, three-dimensional objects. They aim to transform the design of art, architecture and artificial intelligence.

Their new, interactive website EndlessForms.com , allows users to design their own things -- from lamps and butterflies to furniture and faces -- without any technical knowledge and using the same principles that guide evolutionary biology.
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SquidInk · Post by **SquidInk** » 08-19-2011 11:57 PM

That looks interesting.

Still like the idea of a free (not as in beer) 3D model repository -- I guess this is going a step further. I'm still trying to understand the 'evolve' part...

Dale O Sea · Post by **Dale O Sea** » 08-20-2011 02:41 PM

megman wrote: ....
Their new, interactive website EndlessForms.com , allows users to design their own things -- from lamps and butterflies to furniture and faces -- without any technical knowledge and using the same principles that guide evolutionary biology.
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Evolutionary biology? No Creationism?

He says, "Let there be..." and there it ls..much more profound and expeditious.