Physics Illustrator?

8 Oct 2006 (Sun)

Chanced upon this cool video entitled “MIT Sketching” on YouTube this morning (00:04:42):

Curiously, the MIT guy chose to call this “Assist Sketch Understanding System and Operation”. ;-) I believe this is a revised version of the Physics Illustrator that I was exploring a month or two ago. The software is basically “a motion simulator for the Tablet PC”:

Bring your drawings to life with the Physics Illustrator, Simply draw two-dimensional bodies, connect them in various ways and apply forces, then watch as animation makes the bodies move, collide, and interact.

(See also HOW TO: Use Physics Illustrator on non-tablet PC.)

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Posted by J.K. in Explorative, Media, Simulative, Technology, Video | blog reactions | |

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  1. JK says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 10:53 am

    Now, I see. The Acknowledgement page in the online help of the software reads:

    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’ 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).

    Additional information about their research can be found at http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/rationale.

 

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