Sit & Relax: Interactive Design of Body-Supporting Surfaces

dc.contributor.authorLeimer, Kurten_US
dc.contributor.authorBirsak, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorRist, Florianen_US
dc.contributor.authorMusialski, Przemyslawen_US
dc.contributor.editorFu, Hongbo and Ghosh, Abhijeet and Kopf, Johannesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-07T15:00:13Z
dc.date.available2018-10-07T15:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractWe propose a novel method for interactive design of well-fitting body-supporting surfaces that is driven by the pressure distribution on the body's surface. Our main contribution is an interactive modeling system that utilizes captured body poses and computes an importance field that is proportional to the pressure distribution on the body for a given pose. This distribution indicates where the body should be supported in order to easily hold a particular pose, which is one of the measures of comfortable sitting. Using our approximation, we propose the entire workflow for interactive design of C2 smooth surfaces which serve as seats, or generally, as body supporting furniture for comfortable sitting. Finally, we also provide a design tool for RHINOCEROS/GRASSHOPPER that allows for interactive creation of single designs or entire multi-person sitting scenarios. We also test the tool with design students and present several results. Our method aims at interactive design in order to help designers to create appropriate surfaces digitally without additional empirical design passes.en_US
dc.description.number7
dc.description.sectionheaders3D Modeling
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13573
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages349-359
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13573
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13573
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectComputer
dc.subjectaided design
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectMesh geometry models
dc.titleSit & Relax: Interactive Design of Body-Supporting Surfacesen_US
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