Interpreting a 3D object from a rough 2D line drawing

  • Authors:
  • Del Lamb;Amit Bandopadhay

  • Affiliations:
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY;State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

  • Venue:
  • VIS '90 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Visualization '90
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Visualizing the third dimension while designing 3D objects is an awkward process in mechanical CAD systems, given the current state of the art. We describe a computer system that automatically constructs the shape of a 3D object from a single 2D sketch. The method makes it convenient to create and manipulate 3D objects and is thus seen as an intelligent user interface for CAD and 3D graphics applications. The proposed technique is built on well known results in image analysis. These results are applied in conjunction with some perceptual rules to determine 3D structure from a rough line drawing. The principles are illustrated by a computer implementation that works in a nontrivial object domain.