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title: 3D search engine
date: "2002-10-19T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1087
description: I checked out Princeton's 3D search engine, which lets you find objects based on shape. It is an interesting experiment, though I am skeptical about the actual use cases for the models it retrieves.
keywords: [3d search, shape retrieval, princeton university, 3d modeling, geometric search, computer graphics]
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A [3D search engine from Princeton](http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html). Quite an interesting attempt. I'm not sure what to do with the result of the search, though. [via missing matter](http://missingmatter.net/article.pl?sid=02/10/18/0437231)