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Posted on | October 11, 2006

MIT computer simulates engineering environment. It’s a lot cooler than it sounds.

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  1. Lynne
    October 11th, 2006 @ 11:20 pm

    I want one! I wonder how much that gadget costs?

  2. James
    October 11th, 2006 @ 11:33 pm

    I want one. The limitations are tantalizing clues about how it works.

    I noticed that it only recognized straight lines when he was drawing boxes. When he forgot once and drew a line with a corner it turned his box into a triangle. The second time (drawing the cup) he caught himself and made a point of drawing a straight line up, then drawing a straight line across. I assume this is to not take any wobbles in the lines too literally, but it also hugely simplifies the analysis to only look at the point where the pen came down, and the point where it came up, and draw a straight line between them.

    Fascinating. Thanks for the link!

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