Computer Aided Design (CAD) encompasses the digital authoring, modification and documentation of two- and three-dimensional models for engineering and manufacturing. At its core are two principal ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Spline methods constitute a cornerstone of modern geometric design, providing versatile and efficient tools to represent curves and surfaces in a piecewise-polynomial fashion. Originating from ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

As the foundation of any architectural design, sketches and drawings have long been known for their ability to allow the architect to interact with his/her design efficiently and express concepts ...

“New media art” is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase for anything from computer-aided graphic design to robotics that blip, beep and animate. Los Angeles-based Petra Cortright’s work is somewhere ...