Kosirich
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
Unfortunately, what I see lacking in high end laser CNC machine market is software and no separation between CAM programming and execution that exists for milling machines. There is no equivalent to G-code that can be generated on w/e software and then run on different machine. There are cases where this is impossible as due to the way it's done, it would quickly overload even large RAM memory capacities.
Even though, I myself was never involved directly in it, nor am I today, I know from him there were several trends:
1) Printing companies in Europe and elsewhere got bigger. What use to be 10 printing companies, now it's 1.
2) Equipment manufacturers for that industry got bigger. What use to be 4,5 equipment manufacturers in EU/USA, now there is one.
3) Lasers. Lasers got to a level where they can compete and surpass mechanical removal on quality and speed. This is true also for industry I'm in.
. Furthermore, initial inspections at the start of the production run were supposed to verify that the manufacturing process was creating products that satisfied the “design intent,” but the initial products were checked against the manufacturing drawings, not the design drawings.
Of course, here I'm opening myself for a valid criticism which might be constructed as "even if a game uses elements of previously told stories and settings, it might do a different spin or do it on a such a new level of excellence (story wise) that it becomes incomparable with previous attempts".
You could also point out that trailer can be manipulated in such a way by a talented director, that would make the game appear new and unique.
Anything else, we are talking about computational design + AI for interpretability.
I haven't checked all the examples in the link posted, but I know AutodeskAI Lab has some seriously impressive papers out. (code too)