Philippe Fuchs – Paris-to-Beijing Run

Posted on Design News: Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor — Design News, May 29, 2008

Paris-to-Beijing Run to Spawn Bio-Realistic 3-D Foot Model
Virtual-reality professor takes off on a 6,000-mile ultra-marathon to help create a bio-realistic 3-D model of a human foot

What do marathon running and 3-D virtual-reality technology have in common? Up until now, not much. But Philippe Fuchs, a professor and virtual-reality researcher, is teaming up with Dassault Systèmes to converge the two worlds as he runs from Paris to Beijing as part of a project to create a bio-realistic 3-D model of a human foot.

Fuchs, who kicked off his grueling journey on March 7, plans to run between 60 and 85 km a day, the end game being a 10,000 km (6,000 mile), five-month trek from Paris to Beijing with arrival slated just in time for the Summer 2008 Olympics this August. The 57-year-old Fuchs, a professor at the Ecole des Mine de Paris, is no stranger to such ultra marathons: Among his accomplishments is a Paris-Athens run during the last Summer Olympic Games, which accounted for 1,500 miles in only six weeks.

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