Purdue team's 3-D animation displayed at Future of Flight center
A team headed by a recent Purdue University graduate played a leading role in creating a 3-D visual holographic display of how a commercial aircraft is built, and it is currently showing at the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Everett, Wash.
David Shaw, who received his master's degree from the College of Technology in 2006, formerly worked at Boeing and is now a senior computer-aided designer for Freightliner in Portland, Ore. His master's project, titled "A Study of the Development and Evaluation of a 3-D Animation Depicting the Assembly Process of a Boeing 787 Aircraft," details how he and a few assistants put together a four-minute video that shows how the plane is assembled.
View the video, which has been running every four minutes since mid-December 2005 at the Future of Flight Aviation Center, located near Boeing's manufacturing facility. Boeing's corporate headquarters are in Chicago.
"It normally takes about three weeks to assemble a plane of this magnitude," Shaw said. "Our goal was to give a layperson not necessarily skilled in aircraft construction a glimpse of how a massive airplane is put together. We purposefully used easy concepts that even a 5-year-old can understand in a brief and fast-moving presentation.
"It's not an exact or by any means a complete look at the assembly, but it is a good representation."
Read more about the animation.
Last updated: July 10, 2009
David Shaw, who received his master's degree from the College of Technology in 2006, formerly worked at Boeing and is now a senior computer-aided designer for Freightliner in Portland, Ore. His master's project, titled "A Study of the Development and Evaluation of a 3-D Animation Depicting the Assembly Process of a Boeing 787 Aircraft," details how he and a few assistants put together a four-minute video that shows how the plane is assembled.
View the video, which has been running every four minutes since mid-December 2005 at the Future of Flight Aviation Center, located near Boeing's manufacturing facility. Boeing's corporate headquarters are in Chicago.
"It normally takes about three weeks to assemble a plane of this magnitude," Shaw said. "Our goal was to give a layperson not necessarily skilled in aircraft construction a glimpse of how a massive airplane is put together. We purposefully used easy concepts that even a 5-year-old can understand in a brief and fast-moving presentation.
"It's not an exact or by any means a complete look at the assembly, but it is a good representation."
Read more about the animation.
Last updated: July 10, 2009
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