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A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets

Posted by timothy on from the no-mention-of-license-terms dept.

dominique_cimafranca writes "The Dynamic Graphics Project of the University of Toronto has released a pretty nifty 3D curve sketching system. Apart from the large drawing area, the tablet software looks very intuitive to artists. From the site: 'The system coherently integrates existing techniques of sketch-based interaction with a number of novel and enhanced features. Novel contributions of the system include automatic view rotation to improve curve sketchability, an axis widget for sketch surface selection, and implicitly inferred changes between sketching techniques. We also improve on a number of existing ideas such as a virtual sketchbook, simplified 2D and 3D view navigation, multi-stroke NURBS curve creation, and a cohesive gesture vocabulary.'"

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  1. Define "released" by Communomancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Dynamic Graphics Project of the University of Toronto has released a pretty nifty 3D curve sketching system

    I see a video and some links to bios and sample sketches, but no "released" software anywhere.

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  2. Demo Presentation by lamarguy91 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like they are part of the presentation & demo sessions at the UIST (User Interface Software and Technology) being hosted by ACM next week.

    More details here:

    http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2008/

    And a schedule of events:

    http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2008/program/index.html

    I hope to see additional project details and possibly some additional demonstration videos come from this event.

  3. Something similar... by GrievousMistake · · Score: 3, Informative

    That looks very nice!
    I was looking at some similar stuff recently. There's an older app with some of the same gestures, called Teddy, (video here), which was further developed to Smoothteddy.

    Here's hoping these interfaces will be further developed and reach mainstream, and that they will help artists that are good at drawing but bad at extruding, uv-mapping, etc. create some cool stuff.

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  4. Re:Rocks, as in "there's a rock in your shoe"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm really not even a 3D developer, I just do reaally small projects just for fun and test some new features now and then but I really don't know what you're talking about. Blender has a great UI, it didn't take me more than a couple of days to get the hang of it and I think it's really productive.

    It's also very much customizable and there is ongoing development to make it even more so in the next versions as the UI is getting a major overhaul.