Undergraduate, Interactive Games Design (IGD) courses offered by technical universities in the UK recruit students who are not required to have art or design backgrounds. However, they need to be able to represent their creative ideas. Observations at the University of Gloucestershire have shown that many students find difficulties in expressing their ideas in a visual manner as they do not hav...

The coordination of anti-air warfare (AAW) hardkill (HK) and softkill (SK) weapon systems is an important aspect of command and control for the HALIFAX Class Frigate. This led to the development of a rapid prototyping environment, described here, which supports the investigation of methods to coordinate the plans produced by AAW HK and SK agents. The HK and SK planning agents are described. An ...

A new design-for-manufacturing method, called the geometric tailoring (GT), and the associated digital interface concept have been developed that enable the design activities to be separated from the manufacturing activities. Conditions for the successful application of this method are investigated. The GT method is demonstrated for rapid prototyping and rapid tooling technologies, where protot...

Computers are becoming an integral part of dental education and dental practice. Rapid prototyping is a technique for the production of solid objects from computer models. The variety of rapid prototyping devices and materials that can be processed is increasing all the time. In this article, the authors present a discriminative learning device and associated exercises for developing visual rec...

PURPOSE We describe state-of-the-art software and hardware requirements for the manufacture of high quality medical models manufactured using medical rapid prototyping. The limitations of medical models, the source of artefacts, and their physical appearance are illustrated along with remedies for their removal. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical models were built using predominantly stereolithogr...

We present a versatile optofluidic analysis system for non-invasive, flow-through examination of alcoholic solutions. The underlying principle is based on partial total internal reflection at the solid-liquid interface. Using an on-chip air micro-prism the laser beam is diverged, resulting in a unique reflected/transmitted light pattern depending on the solution being examined. Ethanol containi...

Remote sensing can be defined as the “acquisition and measurement of data/information on some property(ies) of a phenomenon, object, or material by a recording device not in physical, intimate contact with the feature(s) under surveillance” (Short 1997). Scientists employing remote sensing are able to collect vast quantities of data quickly and efficiently for rapid analysis. One potential use ...

Moving new DMIs from the research lab to professional artistic contexts places new demands on both their design and manufacturing. Through a discussion of the Prosthetic Instruments, a family of digital musical instruments we designed for use in an interactive dance performance, we discuss four different approaches to manufacturing – artisanal, building block, rapid prototyping, and industrial....

Routing in complex networks is increasingly optimized towards situation and properties of the underlying network. Quick hypothesis testing with respect to the performance of different strategies, however, is posing to be an unnecessarily complicated task. To this end we propose GTNA-2, the enhanced second version of Graph-Theoretic Network Analyzer. Based on the broadly used GTNA, it allows bot...

The capacity for normative frameworks to capture the essential features of interactions between components in open architectures suggests they might also be of assistance in an early, rapid prototyping phase of system development, helping to refine concepts, identify actors, explore policies and evaluate feasibility. As an exercise to examine this thesis, we investigate the concept of the wirel...