From Digital to Real and Back Again

It’s getting real, folks. Increasingly, the real world is becoming interrelated with the digital world, and this is driving new frontiers in software. Scanned data is being fed into computer-aided design (CAD) programs to serve as a starting point or even to co-exist with CAD data, depending on the application. You can read the rest of Kathleen Maher’s article in this weeks issue of Computer Graphics World, which describes several fascinating bits-atoms projects here.