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UAV/UAS Registration in the United States

The deadline is approaching and on this Wednesday January 21, 2016 at midnight when the mandatory registration will no longer free and be $5 and they must be registered by February 19, 2016. We all knew that the FAA would…

Dynamic Drawings on the Web with Project Draco

Bring you art to life using the Technology Preview of Project Draco developed by Autodesk Research.  Project Draco is different and much better and makes animation as easy as sketching. Project Draco aims to bring the power of intricate animation…

Autodesk Releases Wet Lab Accelerator to Open-Source

The Autodesk Bio/Nano Research Team has released a new wet lab tool to open-source on GitHub at https://github.com/Autodesk/bionano-wetLabAccelerator.

This tool is for researchers working in synthetic biology and virology to design robotic wet lab protocols using a visual UI without coding. https://wla.bionano.autodesk.com

Olympic Recurve Bow Created with Generative Design

Amazing example on how design software is pushing further the limits of design using generative design.  Project Dreamcatcher is a new design technology from Autodesk. Read more about Autodesk’s Project Dreamcatcher developed by Autodesk Research  – “The Dreamcatcher system…

3D scanning Apollo 11 at the Smithsonian

  Smithsonian and Autodesk employees conduct a 3-D scan of the spacecraft. (Matt McFarland/The Washington Post) Some of my Autodesk colleagues and the Smithsonian laser cowboys are capturing the Apollo 11 lunar module in 3D this week. Current Reality Capture…

3D Print of the USS Arizona

Pete Kelsey of Autodesk provided some photos and a video of the 3D print of the USS Arizona that is currently being printed in sections. There are two 36” 3D prints being printed by Autodesk and the team at Whiteclouds.…

Diary of a Drone Pilot

A little piece just went live today about some of my work researching reality capture using UAV The sky is no limit in Reality Capture and Computing where the cloud takes on two important and powerful meanings. Diary of a…

Share 3D in the New Autodesk Memento Gallery

In the past 24 hours Autodesk has launched a new Memento Gallery where you can publish your Autodesk Memento 3D models for others to view or even download. I published models up there to test it and it works very…

3D Preservation of the USS Arizona in Autodesk Memento

Over the past two years a team from Autodesk, the U.S. National Park Service, and multiple partners worked in Pearl Harbor Hawaii at the  World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument and USS Arizona Memorial to undertake the…

Tatjana Dzambazova – Recreating Reality

Learn about reality capture in this great short story by my friend and Autodesk colleague Tatjana Dzambazova. You may know Tatjana as the passionate powerhouse behind Autodesk Memento. See our AR/VR exhibit and Tatjana at the Future of StoryTelling conference…