Project lead: Daniel Keefe



CavePainting and Drawing on Air movies:

• CavePainting (video for I3D 2001 paper)
• Drawing on Air (video accompanying TVCG 2007 paper)
• Scientific Sketching: Using these technologies to prototype scientific visualizations (video accompanying TVCG 2008 paper)
• 3D Drawing: An art-oriented overview of interactive 3D drawing in VR

Effective (controllable, fast, and intuitive) spatial interaction with computers may benefit a number of disciplines, from science to medicine to art.  We have been studying novel 3D interaction techniques for computing in a variety of these contexts.  

3D modeling for use in visual art is one of our most exciting application areas for this technology.  Some of our results in this area are shown here.

CavePainting: Physical props and 3D user interfaces for "zero gravity sculpture" in virtual reality.

Drawing on Air: 3D Force Feedback and Two-Handed interfaces for 3D illustration in virtual reality.

More information on these projects, including videos of many of these tools in action and pictures of other 3D modeling results may be found below.

Papers and Videos on the theme Free-Form 3D Modeling.
Links to Art Exhibitions of work created with these tools.