This paper describes how industrial design students made everyday things interactive with Ardiuno in a programming course. It also describes 6 innovative projects made by the students; (1) A beat machine inspired by Rubics Cube, (2) an interactive and moving lamp that scans the area for faces, recognizes your smile, take a picture of it, and posts it on Twitter, (3) a self-typing typewriter fro...

This paper presents an interactive environment for texturing surfaces of arbitrary 3D objects. By uniquely using solid textures and applying them to the surface, we do not require an explicit parameterisation in texture space. Various solid textures can be combined by building a constructive texturing tree of space partitions to define the photometric attributes at each location of the object. ...

We propose a method for interactive cloning of 3D surface geometry using a paintbrush interface, similar to the continuous cloning brush popular in image editing. Existing interactive mesh composition tools focus on atomic copy-and-paste of pre-selected feature areas, and are either limited to copying surface displacements, or require the solution of variational optimization problems, which is ...

Caricature Creation In this stage, we create abstract caricatures using all features as disconnected pieces. Using disconnected pieces is partly motivated by cubist sculptures such as Pablo Picasso‘s {Reclining Bather}. Individual pieces also allow faster shape modification. Each unique feature is represented by at least one disconnected 3D surface. Therefore, it is easy to improve 3D recogniza...

In the last years the development of interactive Computer-based methods for building virtual and physical 2.5D models from single shaded images faced with an exponential growth. In particular, a wide range of methods based on image processing-based procedures and on Shape From Shading (SFS) can be documented. On the basis of the most favorable techniques devised in literature, the present work ...

Medical visualization is the use of computers to create 3D images from medical imaging data sets, almost all surgery and cancer treatment in the developed world relies on it.Volume visualization techniques includes iso-surface visualization, mesh visualization and point cloud visualization techniques, these techniques have revolutionized medicine. Much of modern medicine relies on the 3D imagin...

4D Video Textures (4DVT) introduce a novel representation for rendering video-realistic interactive character animation from a database of 4D actor performance captured in a multiple camera studio. 4D performance capture reconstructs dynamic shape and appearance over time but is limited to free-viewpoint video replay of the same motion. Interactive animation from 4D performance capture has so f...

We present an interactive, real-time mapping system for digital elevation maps (DEMs), which allows Earth scientists to map and therefore understand the deformation of the continental crust at length scales of 10m to 1000 km. Our system visualizes the surface of the Earth as a 3D surface generated from a DEM, with a color texture generated from a registered multispectral image and vector-based ...

Interactive surfaces and multi-touch tables are increasingly available outside academic contexts, and are entering, for instance, work or educational contexts. A large variety of applications exists for a multitude of tasks. For interacting with these applications, existing interaction concepts are often directly mapped to the multi-touch surface, which is often limited by physical constraints....

Current touch technology provides precise and accurate large multi-touch surfaces, which allow multiple users to collaborate in these two-dimensional setups. Furthermore, recent developments in the field of display technology support visualization of three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments (VEs) in high-fidelity visual detail on these surfaces. Finally, cost-efficient depth cameras such as ...