3D sketching for aesthetic design using fully free-form deformation features

  • Authors:
  • V. Cheutet;C. E. Catalano;J. P. Pernot;B. Falcidieno;F. Giannini;J. C. Leon

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche-CNR, Via de Marini, 6, 16149 Genova, Italy and Laboratory 3S-Integrated Design Project-UMR CNRS 5521-UJF-INPG, Domaine Universitaire, 380 ...;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche-CNR, Via de Marini, 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;LSIS-IMS, CER ENSAM, 2, cours des Arts et Métiers, 13617 Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche-CNR, Via de Marini, 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche-CNR, Via de Marini, 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Laboratory 3S-Integrated Design Project-UMR CNRS 5521-UJF-INPG, Domaine Universitaire, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper addresses the designers' activity and in particular the way designers express an object shape in 2D sketches through character lines and how these lines form a basis for sketching shapes in 3D. The tools currently available in commercial CAS/CAD systems to manipulate the digital models are still not sufficiently suited to support design. In this paper, the so-called fully free-form deformation features (@d-F^4) are introduced as a modelling method to take into account the curve-oriented stylists' way of working. Both the advantages of a free-form surface deformation method and a feature-based approach are merged to define these high-level modelling entities allowing for a direct manipulation of surfaces through a limited number of intuitive parameters. Such features incorporate several characteristics designed to handle the uncertainties and/or inconsistencies of the designer's input during a sketching activity. In addition, a @d-F^4 classification is proposed to enable a fast access to the desired shape according to its semantics and characteristics.