Interactive Shape Design (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation) - Softcover

Igarashi, Takeo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598292102 ISBN 13: 9781598292107

Verlag: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Can computers be turned into usable devices to communicate imagined 3D shapes? Can digital design be enhanced to provide the public with user-friendly freeform modeling tools, as well as enabling skilled artists to express any complex shape they can think of? These are the questions the authors address in this lecture. Centering their analysis on the different ways to control shapes provides a non-standard viewpoint of the field of digital shape modeling. It also helps to investigate why, despite more than thirty years of effort towards the development of new surface representations and of algorithms to edit them, most artist first sketch or sculpt in the real world before using a computer.

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Providing an intuitive modeling system, which would enable us to communicate about any free-form shape we have in mind at least as quickly as with real-world tools, is one of the main challenges of digital shape design. The user should ideally be able to create, deform, and progressively add details to a shape, without being aware of the underlying mathematical representation nor being tied by any constraint on the geometrical or topological nature of the model. This book presents the field of interactive shape design from this perspective. Since interactively creating a shape builds on the humans ability of modeling by gesture, we note that the recent advances in interactive shape design can be classified as those that rely on sculpting as opposed to sketching metaphors. Our synthetic presentation of these strategies enables us to compare the different families of solutions, discuss open issues, and identify directions for future research. Table of Contents: Introduction / Sculpting Metaphors / Sketching Systems / Future Directions: Modeling by Gesture

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• Verlag: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1598292102
• ISBN 13: 9781598292107
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
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