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are “three-dimensional,” meaning that you can turn them around in space to

look at them from different angles.

Once you’ve built a 3D object, you can stamp it into a photo you already
have, or into a live scene from your computer’s camera (“Mobile Plans”). If
you really like what you’ve made, you can show it off on Microsoft’s

Remix 3D community website. And if you really, really like it, you can
print it in plastic on a 3D printer or through an online 3D-printing service.

Artistic Tools

When the app first opens, it presents a Welcome screen; hit Start to get
going. Now, on the top toolbar, eight icons make up your artistic arsenal.
(To identify them, point without clicking, or tap with your finger—or just

hit to make their text labels appear.) Here’s what they do:

Brushes. Lets you draw or write on any object with a marker,
calligraphy pen, oil brush, watercolor, pixel pen, pencil, eraser,
crayon, spray can, or paint can. Just pick a brush, a thickness, an
opacity, a color, and a texture—and go to town.

2D shapes. Gives you options to make lines and curves, as well as
24 canned line shapes: squares, triangles, arrows, stars,

checkmarks, and so on. Once you create a shape, you can 3D-ify it
or leave it 2D, whereupon it wraps itself to whatever object is

behind it.

3D shapes is the heaviest hitter, object-creation–wise. It opens a
panel at right with these major components:

3D models are ready-to-use basic objects: male-ish, female-ish,
dog, cat, and fish, along with a “Get more models” button.

3D objects are shapes you may recall from geometry class—cube,

sphere, cylinder, cone, and so on.