Project Number

247

Title

Surface Drawing

Description

Intuitive gesture-driven design interface for intricate, organic 3D shapes.

Contact

Steven Schkolne

Affiliation

California Institute of Technology

Address

MS 256-80 
Pasadena, California 91125

E-mail

ss@cs.caltech.edu

WWW

Year

1999

Reference

SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"Surface Drawing is a medium that enables creation of a wide variety of intricate, organic 3D shapes. Objects are created by moving the hand through space." 
 
"The path of the hand forms surface pieces that seamlessly merge when they touch. Users can also erase, add details, and manipulate objects with a simple two-handed interface. Freely growing, joining, and erasing surface pieces enables rapid prototyping of freeform shapes." 
 
"The system is implemented with the semi-immersive environment of the Responsive Workbench. An 18-sensor CyberGlove measures hand configuration, which controls the shape of surface pieces."

Sight

Caltech Responsive Workbench, graphics workstation, stereoscopic glasswear

Sound

Touch

CyberGlove

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

205 - tangible / gesture interface

Secondary

310 - design

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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