Brendan McMechan's List: Intro To 3-D Modeling

• Creating organs through 3D modeling is the most common form of 3D models that  are evident in the medical field.

  • More common all the time.
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• On the first visit to a plastic surgeon, the doctor may ask which part of the  body that the patient is concerned about.

  • An imoprtant question
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• From this point, measurements will be taken of the patient, and the specific  body parts in proportion to others and these figures will be implemented into  the computer

  • How do they mearsure every angle
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• model remains the same throughout the process

  • Just the color or more?
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• upload a picture into the system, after which a model is created within the  program

  • How would the computer know the dementions?
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• These are complex and expensive systems

  • How much?
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• Either they would make a full sized model of the creature

  • That would take a lot of time
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• Limits imposed by real world models are gone
• Limits  imposed by real world models are gone

  • You could create anything
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• The special effects he could incorporate into a movie were limited by the  robotic creatures, whose movements were obviously limited by the hydraulic  machines that powered them
• The special effects he could incorporate into  a movie were limited by the   robotic  creatures, whose movements were obviously limited by the hydraulic    machines that powered them .

  • Whould the robots cost a lot?
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• the drive train that powered them would be highly sophisticated
• the drive train that powered them would be  highly sophisticated

  • Was it sophisicated by todays standards?
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• a farm of fast computers

  • Computers arn't cheap either
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• But in the case of computer graphics, the more the number of skilled workforce  the production team has at hands, the faster the work will get done.

  • For animated movies they wouldn't have to make a new slid every time either.
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