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 Aug 5 2008, 05:45 PM
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 Detailed  Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design  |
I'm going to give this a stab, albeit a bit late in the game, plus I'm super busy. But Here is my problem:
I have an 81x37" drafting table. I love the thing - it's HUGE! On the table I have a 19" monitor, keyboard and mouse, speakers, pens and markers, tape, rulers, a digital camera, external hard drive, power strip and paper, paper, PAPER!!! You can obviously see where I am going with this. Yes, it is, but I have some ideas beyond it being just a gigantic tablet pc. So here is the thing. Multi-touch screens are the big thing, but right now all the useful ones are all quite small. There are bigger ones, but it is as if nobody has figured out what to use them for. Well, I know what I would use one for.
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Aug 7 2008, 10:14 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
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Aug 7 2008, 10:19 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
the mouse is gone, so why not get rid of the keyboard as well. If the whole tabletop is a touchscreen, the keyboard can be virtual as well. Come to think of it, this would be great for sound designers too - a virtual full piano keyboard would fit right on this thing.
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Aug 7 2008, 10:35 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
Collaborative work is some of the best. However, mind mapping on white boards and large scale paper is great, but keeping piles of large format paper around is absurdly cumbersome, whiteboards get erased. Both are impossible to scan, and the pictures never turn out, and even if they sorta do, they are unintelligible. The process is lost.
Well not anymore. Do your lone and collaborative mindmapping on your design table. Not only can you put all that valuable research into a file or even directly into a presentation, but now it is possible to easily include images or hyperlinks right into a brainstorming session, so that brilliant thought will never be lost.
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Aug 18 2008, 07:06 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
Digital sketching is the future, but what good is it if it has to be printed out for critique anyway?! With the Designer's table all the digital sketches can be loaded - or accessed wirelesly for that matter - into the table. The sketches can be quickly arranged into categories, viewed by designer, put into folders for later, accessed at a whim, enlarged for better detail... the designer can even make a copy of the sketch to edit for on the spot, instant ideation.
This would come equally in handy for the next step of the design process; 3D. Models could be viewed nice and big, and the designer could manipulate the object in real time for detailed explanations if needed. Nice.
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Aug 19 2008, 12:05 PM
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 Product Group: Members Posts: 389 Joined: 10-February 06 Member No.: 4589 Status: Student University of Hertfordshire |
i think this is a cool idea , will keep an eye on your progress. good luck!
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Aug 24 2008, 08:25 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
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Aug 24 2008, 08:29 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:05 PM
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Detailed Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 22-October 07 From: Tennessee Member No.: 16403 Status: Professional seizmic design |
Sorry about that green folks! Guess I could turn the emit down a hair on that wall.
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