Last Wednesday our class visited the Center for Design Innovation in Winston-Salem. It is a multi-campus research center within the University of North Carolina system. Their goal is to catalyze economic transformation of the Piedmont Triad region, through design-focused activity based on advanced digital technologies. Carol Strohecker, the director, began our tour with the 3D printers. This was particularly interesting to those of us focusing on product design. Next Nickolay Hristov demonstrated the work he had been doing with digital imaging and research on bats. Information acquired from videos of bats in flight were translated to 3D imaging to learn about flight mechanics.
