Example-based conceptual styling framework for automotive shapes

  • Authors:
  • István Kókai;Jörg Finger;Randall C. Smith;Richard Pawlicki;Thomas Vetter

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Basel, Switzerland;Universität Basel, Switzerland;General Motors Research and Development;General Motors Research and Development;Universität Basel, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SBIM '07 Proceedings of the 4th Eurographics workshop on Sketch-based interfaces and modeling
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Conceptual design in the automotive industry is a time-consuming process. Iterations between concept sketches, created with traditional two dimensional methods, and 3D digital representations of a prototype are currently one of the big bottlenecks. In this paper we present a framework for an integrated 2D-3D design environment. The core of the framework is a model representing the characteristic lines of automotive shapes built from a set of example shapes. From every example shape we extract the same set of characteristic lines and represent them with a feature vector of deformation gradients. Given a set of constraints, our method can generate a new feature vector with an optimization procedure. We provide examples for meaningful manipulations. We demonstrate that these manipulations are intuitive and create plausible shapes.