Calming NURBS with the Flare Storm - form.Z Joint Study Program helps one student create an innovative flashlight radio

摘要

Some time during the Fall of 2005, Luke Johnson, a student at the University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, Connecticut), dispatched a somewhat perplexing questionnaire to a handful of friends and relatives. The young man wanted to know if they were pleased with their emergency flashlight radios: which features they liked best, which they liked least and why. He'd also been ambushing random people on the streets with similar questions. At times, he could be seen wandering along the aisles of electronic stores, scrutinizing the differences among various brands of flashlight radios. But Johnson wasn't thinking of buying one; he was actually designing one quite unlike those that were already on the market (figure 1).