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Stunning 3D modeling with InDex by Digital ArtForms (you gotta see this)

What do you get when you combine the technology that the new Nintendo Wii uses with top-end modeling technology? You get one amazing (and expensive) looking modeler. You gotta see this thing in action:

So apparently you use a pair of these to model free form in an immersive environment. Looks spiffy, I just use a Wacom and Space Navigator, this looks way cooler. It also looks expensive. I love this kind of stuff, but mostly because in five or so years it will trickle down to mere mortals like me.

Bruce Goff, one of my all-time favorite Architects, mused in his lectures that one day computers would allow him to design a building, on-site, just by walking around with special gloves and glasses and sculpting it in-place. Love that Goff. Mind you, this was in the '50's I think that he was saying this. Ahead of his time that one. So it looks like if you combined InDex with a decent laptop...