In Alice, 3-d objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

在Alice里三维对象(例如人类动物车辆)都存在于一个虚拟的世界中。初学者通过为这些对象编写程序赋予他们生命。

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Even sculpture has adopted digital "rapid prototyping" technology that allows whatever a programmer can imagine to be translated into 3-d objects in plastic.

连雕塑也可以利用电子“快速原型技术”把三维模型迅速制作成塑料模型。

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"You could build wireframe 3-d objects, where each strut was just one of those thin strips, but what we've done is create multi-layer bricks" - and then stack them.

而我们目前所完成的则是创造多层砖块，然后再把他们堆积起来。

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You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.

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"I'm basically stone-mad, " she said, adding that she'd like to create more furniture and decorative objects with semiprecious gems.

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And the first rumblings of a rights-management system for controlling the sharing of physical things are appearing: The IP-hoarding firm Intellectual Ventures received a patent in October for a 3-D printer feature that blocks the creation of verboten objects.

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