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- The 3D modeling process produces a digital object capable of being fully animated, making it an essential process for character animation and special effects. The core of a model is the mesh which is best described as a collection of points in space.
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Today's computer-animated movies do a pretty good job of imitating three-dimensional environments. In films like 'The Incredibles,' 'Cars' and the 'Shrek' series, characters seem to exist as solid objects that can move and interact with their surroundings. It takes a lot of work and a good understanding of how people perceive images to achieve this effect. Filmmakers even make real, tangible models of their characters, known as maquettes, to help them figure out how a 3-D character would move in a 3-D space.
In the past few years, filmmakers have taken this attempt to recreate three-dimensional space on screen one step further. With digital 3-D, animators can fool your eyes and brain into thinking that they're looking into a 3-D space rather than at a 2-D screen. The end result is like looking through a window into a real, three-dimensional world or like having elements of the scene in the theater with you. While it's similar to older 3-D movies, the technology is considerably more advanced.
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Both old and new 3-D movies rely on quirks of human vision to create deep, panoramic scenes or objects that seem to fly from the screen. Human beings have binocular vision -- each eye sees a different image, and the brain combines them into a single, unified picture. The brain uses the slight difference in angle between the two images, known as parallax, to help it perceive depth. This is why people who lose their sight in one eye have trouble judging distances.
Old 3-D movies used anaglyph images to take advantage of binocular vision and parallax. These images include two color layers in a single strip of film shown from one projector. One layer is predominately red, and the other is predominately blue or green. To watch the movie, you wear 3-D glasses with one red lens and one blue or green lens. These lenses force one eye to see the red part of the image and the other eye to see the blue or green part. Because of the differences between the two, your brain perceives them as one image with three dimensions. However, because of the use of color-filtering lenses, the color of the final image isn't accurate. This type of 3-D technology has also caused some people to experience headaches, eye strain and nausea.
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Digital 3-D uses images to trick your vision as well. But instead of using color to filter out the right image for each eye, most systems use polarization. Polarized lenses allow only light waves that are aligned in the right direction to pass through. In a pair of digital 3-D glasses, each lens is polarized differently. In some glasses, there is a 90-degree difference in polarization. Others use different alignments of circular polarization. The screen is specially designed to maintain the correct polarization when light from the projectors bounces off of it. Rather than looking like a mesh of red and green, movies that use this technology look normal, but blurry, when viewed without glasses.
A digital 3-D movie uses one or two digital projectors to display the picture on the screen. Setups with two projectors use one to display the picture for the left eye and the other for the right. The light that creates each image is polarized to match the corresponding lens. Most one-projector systems use a special polarization switch mounted over the projector lens. This switch is a polarized plate that allows the light for only one of the two images through at a time. In one-projector systems, each eye sees its image for each frame of the movie two or three times in extremely fast succession. Your brain blends these into a seamless, moving, three-dimensional image. A few systems use active glasses that synchronize themselves with the projectors using radio waves, but these tend to be heavier and more expensive than ordinary polarized glasses.
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This technology doesn't corrupt the color of the finished image, and it doesn't cause as many unpleasant side effects as anaglyph images. For this reason, some movie makers have started making new movies with 3-D projection in mind. One example is 'Meet the Robinsons,' which opens March 30. According to director Steve Anderson, the use of digital 3-D helped them tell the story rather than providing a lot of visual gimmicks. 'We did want to be conscious of not manufacturing those typical 3-D moments, where things are artificial,' says Anderson. 'We really wanted to use it more to tell the story...in the quiet emotional scenes between [characters] Lewis and Midred, the depth is scaled way back, and you're just concentrating on the characters. In the dinosaur chase...as the kids are hanging inside his mouth, you're seeing enormous amounts of depth.'
It's hard to predict exactly what will happen with this technology in the future. However, children's movies that show on 3-D screens tend to perform better at the box office, so more movies may begin to include 3-D projection as time goes on.
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Digital modeling and fabrication is a design and production process that combines 3D modeling or computing-aided design (CAD) with additive and subtractive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is also known as 3D printing, while subtractive manufacturing may also be referred to as machining,[1] and many other technologies can be exploited to physically produce the designed objects.[2]
Modeling[edit]
Digitally fabricated objects are created with a variety of CAD software packages, using both 2D vector drawing, and 3D modeling. Types of 3D models include four models wireframe, solid, surface and mesh. A design is having one or more of these model types.[3]
Machines for fabrication[edit]
Three machine are popular for fabrication:
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1. CNC router
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2. Laser cutter
3. 3D Printer
CNC Milling machine[edit]
CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control. CNC mills or routers include proprietary software which interprets 2D vector drawings or 3D models and converts this information to a G-code, which represents specific CNC functions in alphanumeric format which the CNC mill can interpret. The G-codes drive a machine tool, a powered mechanical device typically used to fabricate components.[4] CNC machines are classified according to the number of axes that they possess, with 3, 4 and 5 axis machines all being common, and industrial robots being described with having as many as 9 axes. CNC machines are specifically successful in milling materials such as plywood, plastics, foam board, and metal at a fast speed. CNC machine beds are typically large enough to allow 4' × 8' (123 cm x 246 cm) sheets of material, including foam several inches thick, to be cut.
Laser cutter[edit]
The laser cutter is a machine that uses a laser to cut materials such as chip board, matte board, felt, wood, and acrylic up to 3/8 inch (1 cm) thickness. The laser cutter is often bundled with a driver software which interprets vector drawings produced by any number of CAD software platforms.
The laser cutter is able to modulate the speed of the laser head, as well as the intensity and resolution of the laser beam, and as such is able in both to cut and to score material, as well as approximate raster graphics.[5]
Objects cut out of materials can be used in the fabrication of physical models, which will only require the assembly of the flat parts.
3D printers[edit]
3D printers use a variety of methods and technology to assemble physical versions of digital objects. Typically desktop 3D printers can make small plastic 3D objects. They use a roll of thin plastic filament, melting the plastic and then depositing it precisely to cool and harden. They normally build 3D objects from bottom to top in a series of many very thin plastic horizontal layers. This process often happens over the course of several hours.
Fused deposition modeling[edit]
Fused deposition modeling, also known as fused filament fabrication, uses a 3-axis robotic system that extrudes material, typically a thermoplastic, one thin layer at a time and progressively builds up a shape. Examples of machines that use this method are the Dimension 768 and the Ultimaker.
Stereolithography[edit]
Stereolithography uses a high intensity light projector, usually using DLP technology, with a photosensitive polymer resin. It will project the profile of an object to build a single layer, curing the resin into a solid shape. Then the printer will move the object out of the way by a small amount and project the profile of the next layer. Examples of devices that use this method are the Form-One printer and Os-RC Illios.
Selective laser sintering[edit]
Selective laser sintering uses a laser to trace out the shape of an object in a bed of finely powdered material that can be fused together by application of heat from the laser. After one layer has been traced by a laser, the bed and partially finished part is moved out of the way, a thin layer of the powdered material is spread, and the process is repeated. Typical materials used are alumide, steel, glass, thermoplastics (especially nylon), and certain ceramics. Example devices include the Formiga P 110 and the Eos EosINT P730.
Powder printer[edit]
Powder printers work in a similar manner to SLS machines, and typically use powders that can be cured, hardened, or otherwise made solid by the application of a liquid binder that is delivered via an inkjet printhead. Common materials are plaster of paris, clay, powdered sugar, wood-filler bonding putty, and flour, which are typically cured with water, alcohol, vinegar, or some combination thereof. The major advantage of powder and SLS machines is their ability to continuously support all parts of their objects throughout the printing process with unprinted powder. This permits the production of geometries not easily otherwise created. However, these printers are often more complex and expensive. Examples of printers using this method are the ZCorp Zprint 400 and 450.
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- ^'What is digital modeling and fabrication? - Definition from WhatIs.com'. SearchManufacturingERP. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
- ^Bickel, B.; Cignoni, P.; Malomo, L.; Pietroni, N. (2018). 'State of the Art on Stylized Fabrication'(PDF). Computer Graphics Forum. 37 (6): 325–342. doi:10.1111/cgf.13327. hdl:10453/129681. S2CID51870522.
- ^'About Modeling 3D Objects AutoCAD Autodesk Knowledge Network'. knowledge.autodesk.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
- ^Lynch, Mike. 'Five CNC Myths and Misconceptions Modern Machine Shop'. www.mmsonline.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
- ^Industries, Precision Metal. 'Automated Laser Cutting Precision Metal Industries'. www.pmiquality.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.