Morten Lind utilized the Blender Game Engine for realistic, real-time emulation of manufacturing systems throughout his PhD work. He recently published a paper about this process at the International Journal of Production Research. He also provided us with some links to some screen-caps of the animation.
This is a very useful tool, often seen mainly in assembly modules of commercial engineering packages.
International Journal of Production Research:
Videos:
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Firefox tells me the video links are not trustworthy?
@ Bawss:
Someone stole ssl certificates from DigiNotar. And firefox had an update to untrust this certificates for now. Maybe that's the reason.
This is amazing.
Reading the full article and forwarding it to my colleagues.
Amazing. It's really interesting to see Blender as a tool for engineering related jobs. I use Blender for creating visualizations of custom made gas compressor packages that I design. This is cool.
Amazing. It's really interesting to see Blender as a tool for engineering related jobs. I use Blender for creating visualizations of custom made gas compressor packages that I design. This is cool.
Google Chrome also reporting in-valid https certificates.
A question for developers:
If Pythton is slower than C++, Why not use C++ instead?
Well, i am no expert here, I just heard some Blender devs talking about Blender running hundreds of Python commands at a time and, well, it is slow, eh?
I am having real problems displaying the website.
Would love to get my hands on a copy of that paper.
@The Techno Alien: Python is nicer and way more convenient and it doesn't require compiling each time you change something in order to get your code running. Technology (hardware) evolved quite a lot, so I think it's safe to assume we could make things a bit nicer when working on the software side at the compromise of speed.
Usually when I make arguments like this, someone says "but you only have to compile the changed modules, not all", lol.... whatever man.
There was some nasty shit that happened with some certificate authorities recently, This is obviously one of the sites that got certified with one of the compromised companies. They're probably fine, that said.
OH I should also say that you are going to the site to download video files. You arn't giving them any data, or money. So just trust them and get the files.
Looks interesting. Too bad I have to shell out some money to read the journal.
looks almost like the Aperture Science Investment Opportunity videos.
Why are they using HTTPS in the first place?
I used wget to download the video using the command below. I'm not a security expert but this is probably safer than browsing the entire site. I agree it's kinda funny that the author would put these videos behind an https link. Are they somehow confidential?
wget --no-check-certificate https://automatics.no-ip.org/~ml/intellifeed-emu/supply.ogv
Hi all. I have self-archived a pre-print of the paper. It will probably show up soon with google scholar.
The certificate at automatics.no-ip.org is currently self-signed, but I will look into registering one with CACert.org. Since this is not sensitive data, do not be alarmed; naturally you may fear vira from the downloads, but you are not required to submit any information to the website.
The reason for having only ssl-access to the videos is plain lazyness. I host some research matters on that server and have hardened it. Rather than opening for unencrypted access, I just put the videos up with no authorization/authentication required. Sorry for all the inconvenience it apparently caused :-)
There. I uploaded the pre-print of the paper to https://automatics.no-ip.org/~ml/intellifeed-emu/.
Morten Lind, Thank you so much! I was trying to find the free version of this paper everywhere with no luck.