Like an old rock star who does not know when to quit:
This disabilities journalist continues to blog through the night to describe how 3-and 4-D technology will help elderly and disabled individuals lead better and more productive lives as a result of novel engineering techniques that make your head feel as if it will explode. Of course, the fourth dimension is Time.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Regarding: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” I can.
Right now, I am publishing a blog on 3- and 4-D technology instrumental in improving the design of elderly and disability housing, a subject on which I have some experience since I live in housing intended for elderly and disabled people such as myself.
The blog will discuss such tools as:
- Google’s Sketchup (available for free)http://sketchup.google.com/download/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=SketchUp
- Second Life describes itself as “a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.”The free download does not occupy much computer room: http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Always-What-Want/dp/B0016CRWW0/ref=dm_att_trk3
- WOW
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Sketchup is a favorite. I just made my first 3-D drawing. It is not exactly a drawing. It is OY VAY! in what appears to be 40 foot 3-D letters. I can see Oy Vey! from:
- Top
- Bottom
- Forward
- Back
It iis a strange experience to draw huge letters and look at the drawing from underneath the letters, creating a paranoid fantasy of being crushed by letters (or more conventional objects like wheelchairs).
Join me in my new world at Disability Beat Covers Virtual Reality. http://disabilitybeatcoversvirtualreality.blogspot.com/