#3DS in the Courtroom
8 messages in this thread
Mr. Mayhall, hello. My name is Tyler Colwell and I am a Registered
Professional Engineer in the states of California and Nevada
(Mechanical Engineer). I am forming a company to provide accident
reconstruction and animation for courtroom applications (essentially
Forensic Engineering with animation). From the name of your company
it appears that you may be involved in a similar field. True? I
would like to periodically converse with you about this field and
bounce questions off of you. Would this be OK?
I, too am very interested in carrying on about same – my business partner is a
lawyer, and he wants us to get into such things <g>! Maybe we should take it
private?
Hi Mike, where are you located… what kind of work is your firm currently
involved in… what is your background?
A little about myself: I live in the Lake Tahoe area. I have
extensive experience in machinery diagnostics, seminar instruction,
and animation. The area I plan to service will include Northern
California and Nevada.
Let's Chat!
I'm in Charleston, S.C… I own a computer retail/repair store, and have been
doing 3DS (almost exclusively broadcast design) for about 6 months, now… I
have 21+ years experience in the computer industry, and would like to (plan
to!) get into the 'accident reconstruction' field, but need a little boost to
get started – it's not like anything I've done so far! <g>…
Hi Tyler. My name is George Mendoza and I am in the process of
forming a company to provide Finite Element Analysis, Mechanical
Design and Event Reconstruction (Forensic Animation) services. I am
located in the San Francisco bay area. Leave me a message if yor are
interested in exchanging ideas.
Holy Cow! You plan to provide the same services as my company. I am
an experienced Ansys user, as well as 3D Studio. My background
includes extensive experience in machinery diagnostics (which is
similar to event reconstruction in many ways), seminar instruction in
machinery vibration analysis, and animation.
I am very interested in finding ways to interface dynamic analysis results with
the 3D animation process. Have you found a clean way to do this?
HI Tyler! I am very interested in hearing more about your company. I have about
ten years experience as an AeroSpace Engineer, first at Rockwell International
on the (B1-Bomber) then at a Naval Air Station in The San Francisco Bay on
Naval aircraft (F-14 Tomcat , F-18 Hornet , P-3 Orion, S-3 Viking, A-6
Intruder). I design and perform analysis on variety of complex aircraft
components and tooling using Computer Vision WorkStations to run Ansys and
CADDS FEM and 486 Personel Computers to run Algor, Autocad, 3D-Studio, Animator
Pro, and Adobe Photo Shop.
Now to answer your question. Using Algor script capability , Pizzaz Plus,
Action Animator (Diaquest), Animator Pro, Adobe Photo Shop and a Turbo Basic
Program I wrote to do my VTR based on line edits. I have been able to
consistently produce Broadcast Quality Video of Transient Heat Transfer, Eigen
Vector displacement, Fluid Flow , Force displacement and Stress flow for Algor
and Ansys. I would venture to say that the process is relatively straight
forward and that I use Algors'
Script functions in about the same way that I use 3D-Studios' Key Frame Editor.
Good-Bye
Hi George, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I have been on
vacation. There's really not a lot to tell right now about my company, since
it is still in the conceptual stage. I am still in the process of determining
what the need is out there. My experience is in machinery diagnostics,
troubleshooting large rotating machinery utilizing vibration data, etc. I also
have experience in modeling and analysis of rotating machinery components,
which is where the Ansys experience comes from.
Thanks for the info regarding interfacing the analysis process with the
animation process. Another question(s): do you plan on rendering your
animations to video tape? And if so do you have or plan to have the necessary
hardware, or will you have a studio do that for you? If you do have the
hardware, what is it? How much does it cost to get equipped for this? What do
studios charge? Obviously, only answer what you can.
Looking forward to hearing from you… TC