Three-dimensional realization of anomalous pictures-An application of picture interpretation theory to toy design

  • Authors:
  • Kokichi Sugihara

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Anomalous pictures are naively regarded as pictures of impossible objects, but some of them are realizable as three-dimensional polyhedral objects. This paper presents an interactive system for generating the unfolded surfaces of those objects, thus offering toy material from which children can make ''impossible objects''.