SMARTCANVAS: Context-inferred Interpretation of Sketches for Preparatory Design Studies

dc.contributor.authorZheng, Youyien_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Hanen_US
dc.contributor.authorDorsey, Julieen_US
dc.contributor.authorMitra, Niloy J.en_US
dc.contributor.editorJoaquim Jorge and Ming Linen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-26T08:37:00Z
dc.date.available2016-04-26T08:37:00Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn early or preparatory design stages, an architect or designer sketches out rough ideas, not only about the object or structure being considered, but its relation to its spatial context. This is an iterative process, where the sketches are not only the primary means for testing and refining ideas, but also for communicating among a design team and to clients. Hence, sketching is the preferred media for artists and designers during the early stages of design, albeit with a major drawback: sketches are 2D and effects such as view perturbations or object movement are not supported, thereby inhibiting the design process. We present an interactive system that allows for the creation of a 3D abstraction of a designed space, built primarily by sketching in 2D within the context of an anchoring design or photograph. The system is progressive in the sense that the interpretations are refined as the user continues sketching. As a key technical enabler, we reformulate the sketch interpretation process as a selection optimization from a set of context-generated canvas planes in order to retrieve a regular arrangement of planes. We demonstrate our system (available at http:/geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/2016/smartcanvas/) with a wide range of sketches and design studies.en_US
dc.description.number2en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersEditing, Sketch & Drawingen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume35en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12809en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages037-048en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12809en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleSMARTCANVAS: Context-inferred Interpretation of Sketches for Preparatory Design Studiesen_US
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