Structured Annotations for 2D-to-3D Modeling
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Abstract
We present a system for 3D modeling of free-form surfaces from 2D sketches. Our system frees users to create 2D sketches from arbitrary angles using their preferred tool, which may include pencil and paper. A 3D model is created by placing primitives and annotations on the 2D image. Our primitives are based on commonly used sketching conventions and allow users to maintain a single view of the model. This eliminates the frequent view changes inherent to existing 3D modeling tools, both traditional and sketch-based, and enables users to match input to the 2D guide image. Our annotations---same-lengths and angles, alignment, mirror symmetry, and connection curves---allow the user to communicate higher-level semantic information; through them our system builds a consistent model even in cases where the original image is inconsistent. We present the results of a user study comparing our approach to a conventional ``sketch-rotate-sketch'' workflow.
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@article{Gingold:2009:SA2,
author = {Yotam Gingold and Takeo Igarashi and Denis Zorin},
title = {Structured Annotations for 2{D}-to-3{D} Modeling},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
volume = {28},
number = {5},
year = {2009},
pages = {148},
issn = {0730-0301},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1618452.1618494},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA}
}