Laws@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA.UUCP (03/30/87)
I hate to turn away AI-related discussions, but CAD/CAM, Robotics, and Vision are large enough areas that they should have their own lists. I've heard that there is a CADinterest^.es@Xerox.COM list (reachable via seismo from csnet) that discusses VLSI design, CAD workstations, etc. There are Arpanet lists for graphics and for workstations, as well as Vision-List@ADS for machine-vision discussions. I don't know of any robotics list, although Vision-List has carried related messages. (Vision workers are often interested in path planning and other robotic issues.) Some of the aforementioned lists have been inactive lately. You could either "take over" one of their discussions for awhile or start a new list that combines your own interests. I'm told that an AI-Hardware list will be formed soon -- perhaps CAD/CAM will be of interest there. -- Ken Laws BTW, there is indeed a literature on combining 2-D views to construct 3-D objects -- both for converting mechanical drawings to solid models and for extracting buildings from aerial imagery. I don't have references handy, but Tom Strat here at SRI published some papers on this a year or so ago. Underwood also worked on this problem, as have others. There is also a vast literature on combining stereo views to obtain 3-D models for robotic inspection and grasping.