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digitizers/digital clay

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#172923From: John N. JordanMay 31, 1995 9:00 PM
JKJ, How's the digitizer working? JNJ
#173852From: John K. JordanJun 5, 1995 10:18 PM
>>FARO SpaceArm digitizer… JNJ, The digitizer works very well. I've been more than swamped the last few weeks, with not even enough time to get my modem software working again till just now. I completed four major animation projects in the last two months with several more waiting till I get time. I played with the digitizer for a few days several weeks ago. Very high quality, precision made. Difficult to use, like all manual digitizers, but capable of building things otherwize impossible. I got the Mira Hyperspace software with it – man, 3DS really spoils you when it comes to 3D object creation and editing. Those programmers would do well to sit down with 3DS for a while and learn about efficiency. I talked to their Windows programmer – he had barely heard of 3DS! I have a fox skull partially digitized and a lion skull waiting. I went to visit FARO in Florida and spent the day with one of their engineers designing features for a digitizer IPAS. We'll see how that works out! I'm leaving in a few hours for two weeks of wandering aimlessly around Utah, Colorado, and CA. The sketchpad and binoculars go. The laptop stays home. Talk to you later. <g> JKJ