The first step in the creation of a completed building model is the construction of a 3-d wireframe model using AutoCAD. For most of the Byzantine structures still extant in modern Istanbul there are ...

But even today’s 3D printing technology has room for improvement, and a new technique that involves printing only simple wireframe models should expedite the earliest stages of prototyping a new ...

The ProtoPiper was designed and engineered to recreate the wireframe models you usually see in 3D modeling software, but at a much larger scale than seen on a computer screen.

It takes a few weeks for IOMedia to map and add a venue, as it builds off a 3D wireframe model and adds the gyroscopic and panoramic actions before adding textures and proper branding.

Both Microsoft and Google are also making a big push to include 3D wireframe models of building in their maps of major cities, and to map photographic textures onto them.