Techno Babble

Teddy is sketch-based 3D Modelling Software from Takeo Igarashi an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo.

An updated version, SmoothTeddy, is available and combines the original Teddy ptogram with another of his applications, Chameleon, a 3D texture painting program for Teddy.

SmoothTeddy

Both are worth a look, not for what they can actually do, but rather how they do it.

Other interesting projects include “As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation” and “As-Rigid-As-Possible Curve Editing”

This demonstrates 2 things:

• The ability to manipulate curves in an intuitive way (forget about control polygons, tangent manipulation etc. etc.)
• Interaction with geometry using touch screen technology

Visit the web-site via the enclosed links to find out more and download the (java) applications to experiment with these concepts.

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