Sketch in 3D
19 09 2006Here’s an awesome little webpage I found the other day on www.digg.com and spent a good hour or so fooling around with. I’m incredibly impressed by how inutitive the designer has made sketching in 3D. The only thing I think it’s missing is a zoom control.
Anyways, this great little applet lets you sketch a design in 2D and then it creates a 3D model from what you’ve drawn. The controls couldn’t be easier: Left click to draw, right click to rotate. If you want to attach an object to another object draw the shape of the connection and it enters “extrude” mode. then you can rotate the image and draw the shape to be attached.
Anyways, here’s the link to part of Takeo Igarashi’s site Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design .
Apparently he has created a newer version that lets you colour the 3D object as well but it must be downloaded. It’s available here (SmoothTeddy).
