Mind Reader

Posted by stephens on Sep 26, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Engineering Decisions | 0 comments

My blessing and sometimes curse is the ability to look at a two-dimensional part print and visualize the stamping process and the three-dimensional mechanics of each tool.

In the manual design days, the vision of the tool design would go from my brain to my hands and end up on paper with pencil and speedraft.

For me, CAD interrupts this seamless transition because I have to “tell” the software what to do to match my die design vision.

Ever since I started experimenting with solid modeling in 1989, I dreamed of a technology that could create the design directly from the vision in my head.

There is an excellent post at Wired that speaks of such a technology. The story talks about scientists using a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine – a real-time brain scanner – to “see” what a person is thinking visually.

How cool would it be to use this fMRI technology to create die designs? It would be like an engineering mind reader.