A suggestive interface for 3D drawing

  • Authors:
  • Takeo Igarashi;John F. Hughes

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University, Providence, RI;Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new type of interface for 3D drawings that improves the usability of gestural interfaces and augments typical command-based modeling systems. In our suggestive interface, the user gives hints about a disired operation to the system by highlighting related geometric components in the scene. The system then infers possible operations based on the hints and presents the results of these operations as small thumbnails. The user complets the editing operation simply by clicking on the disired thumbnail. The hinting mechanism lets the user specify geometric relations among graphical components in the scene, and the multiple thumbnail suggestions make it possible to define many operations with relatively few distinct hint patterns. The suggestive interface system is implemented as a set o suggestion engines working in parallel, and is easily extended by adding customized engines. Our prototype 3D drawing system, Chateau, shows that a suggestive interface can effectively support construction of various 3D drawings.