Whoa, Machine Sketch Interpretation That Actually Works
October 4, 2006 8:49 pm General Interest, Miscellaneous, Nintendo DS, ProgrammingIt’s been a good year for holy-crap technologies. This one – an MIT tool called ASSIST - boggles my mind, and it’s given me some seriously woot ideas. I’m filing it under Nintendo DS because, even though it’s not a game, that’s just the ideal platform for a better-developed such tool.
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The YouTube video is short, but there’s a longer one at the main page.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:11 am
This is amazing!
October 5th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Lags, selecting objects looks like a pain in the ass.
Pretty good otherwise, little physics sim and mspaint
October 5th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Oh, that’s just beautiful.
I never thought I’d envy physics professors!
October 7th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Somewhat related note, with the new high-performance, Flash 9 Actionscript virtual machine (AVM2), people are making interesting physics simulations:
http://blog.andre-michelle.com/2006/announcing-new-physics-engine-in-as3/
October 7th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
This is very similar to a tool that Microsoft has released for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition – a PowerToy called Microsoft Physics Illustrator. It does the same stuff, but with a seemingly simpler interface.
It’s kept me entertained for quite a while. Unfortunately, it only works on the tablet edition of XP or I would be using it on my desktop all the time. XD
October 9th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Well, I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle!
October 9th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
from the Microsoft Physics Illustrator:
“Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC is a re-implementation of research work done at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Professor Randall Davis’s research group: … The original prototype was called Assist (A Shrewd Sketch Interpretation System); it is described in Alvarado’s Master’s Thesis (“A natural sketching environment,” MIT EECS Dept, 2000). ”
How to use it on a non-tablet pc:
http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/02/05/how-to-use-physics-illistrator-on-non-tablet-pc/
Direct download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/48d08c/ (download link will expire in a couple days apparently…so a mirror might be nice)
October 10th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Dave Rorex for the win, yo
October 11th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Did anyone else notice that when he drew the second “marble ramp” he drew a not-quite-closed rectangle and ASSIST changed this to a triangle shape. Interesting that the demonstrator didn’t change it back; although it did still work for the demo…
October 17th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
the pintar virtual mechanics lab does the same thing, free download
http://www.pintarmedia.com/pdload/