Tabby: Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures

Suzuki, Ryo; Yatani, Koji; Gross, Mark D.; Yeh, Tom

Tabby: Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures

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Date

2018

Authors

Suzuki, Ryo
Yatani, Koji
Gross, Mark D.
Yeh, Tom

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper presents Tabby, an interactive and explorable design tool for 3D printing textures. Tabby allows texture design with direct manipulation in the following workflow: 1) select a target surface, 2) sketch and manipulate a texture with 2D drawings, and then 3) generate 3D printing textures onto an arbitrary curved surface. To enable efficient texture creation, Tabby leverages an auto-completion approach which automates the tedious, repetitive process of applying texture, while allowing flexible customization. Our user evaluation study with seven participants confirms that Tabby can effectively support the design exploration of different patterns for both novice and experienced users.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:pg.20181273
,
booktitle = {Pacific Graphics Short Papers
},
editor = {Fu, Hongbo and Ghosh, Abhijeet and Kopf, Johannes
},
title = {{Tabby: Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures
}},
author = {Suzuki, Ryo and 
Yatani, Koji and 
Gross, Mark D. and 
Yeh, Tom
},
year = {2018
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-073-4
},
DOI = {10.2312/pg.20181273
}
}