Re: Ability, Talent and Skills

Christopher Wright wrote, in part:

> The laity thinks that engineering design is simply representation--make
> a picture and you have a design. It works that way for high fashion and
> a lot of interior design, but not in engineering.

Also consider movie-making, where appearance is more important than reality. That field of 3D graphics makes a lot of money and is much more glamourous and cool than boring old engineering.

What will be truly interesting will be when the 3D modelling software has material characteristics and kinematics built-in.

Imagine building a relatively simple pump/piping/tank system in software and testing it in real time with different fluids, materials of construction, etc.

Paul Received on Mon Jan 16 20:43:00 2006