International Sculpture Symposiums and Impressions

Combining Human Inputters and Language Services to provide Multi-language support system for International Symposiums

In this research, we introduce and implement a method that combines human inputters and machine translators. When the languages of the participants vary widely, the cost of simultaneous translation becomes very high. However, the results of simply applying machine translation to speech text do not have the quality that is needed for real use. Thus, we propose a method that people who understand...

Virtual Sculpture

We propose here a sculpture metaphor for rapid shape prototyping. This metaphor makes the underlying surface description transparent for the user, enabling him to focus only on the shape being modeled. Our approach is based on implicit surfaces defined as iso-surfaces over a discrete field.

Sculpture virtuelle

Résumé : Nous présentons ici une métaphore de sculpture destinée au prototypage rapide de formes 3D. La surface sculptée correspond à l’iso-valeur d’un champ potentiel scalaire échantillonné spatiallement. L’utilisateur peut déposer de la matière où il le désire dans l’espace puis itérativement affiner sa forme grâce à un outil servant à déposer, retirer, peindre ou lisser de la matière, comme ...

Symposiums Lectures

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...