FreeDrawer: a free-form sketching system on the responsive workbench

  • Authors:
  • Gerold Wesche;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer Institut, Sankt Augustin, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • VRST '01 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A sketching system for spline-based free-form surfaces on the Responsive Workbench is presented. We propose 3D tools for curve drawing and deformation techniques for curves and surfaces, adapted to the needs of designers. The user directly draws curves in the virtual environment, using a tracked stylus as an input device. A curve network can be formed, describing the skeleton of a virtual model. The non-dominant hand positions and orients the model while the dominant hand uses the editing tools. The curves and the resulting skinning surfaces can interactively be deformed.