CAD engine making.....The slinky was a by-product of block milling, the old timey-way.....a cylidre would be cut, and the contiguous coil would come off the end of the cutter, to be played with by machinists, eventually packaged as a marvelous spring......

Can they make a block outta steel this way???? Cause I wanna programme mine to crank out 454 big blocks!!!!

Have seen the concept perfected in the construction of intricate, 3-d models, done with polymers, to sayyyy bring from a cad drawing of a carbuerator-a physical model prior to production for designers to handle and test to perfect. So, these kids have their cheesecloth for ornaments, but the Gods of the Paradigm, have the real deal, behind closed doors, floors, and wars....

Please don't vote this to the front page. Look at the other video of this. It literally is two grad students and some crappy CAD controlled polymer extruder. It's rediculous. Sure the concept is great but the reality is about the same as you using an icing piping bag to make ornaments.

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Congrats, to one of only two Sifters I've ever met in meat space.

I think that you are going to nab a great job at Ikea doing CAD/CAM industrial design of their kitchen implements. Not only will you do sifters, you'll move on to graters, and ocassionally whisks. And you can tell them it all started here.

I'd like to see them do this with a CAD model of the Lakeview area of New Orleans around where the levee broke.

UnderDog seems very hard to find... sorta remember watching it as a kid.

In 1960, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Tread Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills. The shows introduced such characters as King Leonardo, Tennessee Tuxedo and Underdog. Biggers contributed both scripts and songs to the series. When Underdog became a success, Biggers and his partners left Dancer Fitzgerald Sample to form their own company, Total Television, with animation produced at Gamma Studios in Mexico. At the end of the decade, Total Television folded when General Mills dropped out as the sponsor in 1969.

Underdog was an anthropomorphic superhero parody of Superman and similar heroes with secret identities. The premise was that "humble and lovable" Shoeshine Boy, a cartoon dog, was in truth the superhero Underdog. George Irving narrated, and comedy actor Wally Cox provided the voices of both Underdog and Shoeshine Boy. When villains threatened, Shoeshine Boy ducked into a telephone booth where he transformed into the caped and costumed hero, destroying the booth in the process when his super powers were activated. Underdog almost always spoke in rhyme:

When Polly's in trouble, I am not slow,
So it's hip! hip! hip! and away I go.

Underdog's most frequent saying when he appeared was:

    There's no need to fear, Underdog is here.

The majority of episodes used a common template when Underdog first reveals himself. A crowd of people look up in the sky would say: "Look in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane!" After which one a woman exclaims, "It's a frog!" Another onlooker responds "a frog?" To this, Underdog replies with these words:

    Not bird, not plane, not even frog, it's just little old me, (at this point, Underdog crashes into something) Underdog.

Underdog usually caused a lot of collateral damage. Whenever someone complained about the damage, Underdog replied:

    I am a hero who never fails.
    I cannot be bothered with these details.

The villains almost always managed to menace Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma McMillan), an anthropomorphic canine TV reporter as part of their nefarious schemes; she was a helpless damsel in distress most of the time, and had a habit of singing in a somewhat whining tone of voice, "Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?", which she sings to the tune of the song "Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone" when in jeopardy. Recurring villains included Simon Bar Sinister, a mad scientist with a voice reminiscent of Lionel Barrymore, his assistant Cad and Riff Raff, an anthropomorphic wolf gangster based on the noted actor George Raft. Other villains include The Electric (Slippery) Eel, Battyman, and Overcat.

Unlike Superman, Underdog's super powers are not a natural part of his physical makeup. When he is not Underdog, he is incognito as a shoeshine boy and hurriedly dresses in a phone booth like Superman when trouble calls; he must take an "Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill" to ignite his powers (like Mister Terrific). He keeps one of these pills inside a special ring he wears at all times. Several episodes show Underdog losing the ring and being powerless, since he must take another pill as his super powers begin to fail. When the series was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, the scenes of him taking his energy pill were edited out. Animation fans lambast this as a form of political correctness, as they believe the scenes were removed in order to prevent any glorification of drug use

If every image in your 'virtual pool' was, as in the video, a photograph of exceptional resolution and clarity, this might just work. But like a CAD package, the user input required to get the results you want is beyond the capabilities of most users.

Anyone remember the Virtual Reality craze from the late 1990s, where everyone would be walking up and down virtual streets and buying goods from virtual stores? Sometimes people prefer things just as they are.