Free-form sketching with variational implicit surfaces

dc.contributor.authorKarpenko, Olgaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHughes, John F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRaskar, Rameshen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-16T11:47:50Z
dc.date.available2015-02-16T11:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2002en_US
dc.description.abstractWith the advent of sketch-based methods for shape construction, there's a new degree of power available in the rapid creation of approximate shapes. Sketch [Zeleznik, 1996] showed how a gesture-based modeler could be used to simplify conventional CSG-like shape creation. Teddy [Igarashi, 1999] extended this to more free-form models, getting much of its power from its 'inflation' operation (which converted a simple closed curve in the plane into a 3D shape whose silhouette, from the current point of view, was that curve on the view plane) and from an elegant collection of gestures for attaching additional parts to a shape, cutting a shape, and deforming it.But despite the powerful collection of tools in Teddy, the underlying polygonal representation of shapes intrudes on the results in many places. In this paper, we discuss our preliminary efforts at using variational implicit surfaces [Turk, 2000] as a representation in a free-form modeler. We also discuss the implementation of several operations within this context, and a collection of user-interaction elements that work well together to make modeling interesting hierarchies simple. These include 'stroke inflation' via implicit functions, blob-merging, automatic hierarchy construction, and local surface modification via silhouette oversketching. We demonstrate our results by creating several models.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Modeling packages I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Interaction techniquesen_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume21en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8659.t01-1-00709en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages585-594en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.t01-1-00709en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishers, Inc and the Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.titleFree-form sketching with variational implicit surfacesen_US
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