3D Models Available Now. Click here for the 3D Catalog.

I've introduced a multimedia CD called "CAD for Modelers", sharing my methods, tips, and tricks for creating the kind of results you can see on this web site.

NextCraft™ is now strictly devoted to creating new CD's and 3D models, to share with those of you who have an interest in the design of molded, composite, radio-controlled model aircraft.. I've also introduced a multimedia CD called "How to do Everything", Volume One. Info and preview movies of the CD's can be found by clicking the "Products" link above.

My history in 3D...

In 1984, while on the road as a musician, I bought a book of gorgeous computer graphics, called “Art and the Computer”, by physicist Melvin Prueitt, PHD. His graphics pointed out something to me about conveying huge amounts of data with images, and were beautiful, regardless. In those days, the kind of images he produced were only possible on powerful machines like NASA’s “Cray” computers. Most of us who had personal computers were using Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, and (pre-Macintosh) Apple computers... Nice, but very limited on the graphics.

I had begun as a hobbyist programmer in the late 1970’s, and longed for some decent graphics on a personal computer. It seemed to be that the only way to produce them would be to do the programming myself, so that’s what I studied in my spare time. I ultimately sold a 3D graphics program (“Terrain 3D”) for the Sinclair QL, to Digital Precision, U.K.. Today, I’d call it a “glorified function plotter”, although it was unique at the time. (customized terrain creation for game designers, achieved by a process I invented for adding formulas together, without having to understand the math, using visual metaphors)

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- Mike James -