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2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Implementation of ActiveCube as an Intuitive 3D Computer Interface
This paper describes in details the implementation of the ActiveCube system. ActiveCube allows users to construct and interact with 3D environments by using physical cubes as bi-di...
Ryoichi Watanabe, Yuichi Itoh, Michihiro Kawai, Yo...
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Tangible Image Query
This paper introduces a tangible user interface for browsing and retrieving images from an image database. The basis for the query to the image database is a color layout sketch, ...
Kresimir Matkovic, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner, Werner...
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework Supporting General Object Interactions for Dynamic Virtual Worlds
Abstract. This work introduces a new interaction framework for dynamic virtual environments. The proposed system is designed to deal with all possible interactions in a virtual wor...
Pieter Jorissen, Wim Lamotte
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Collage Using Texture Synthesis
We present an application of texture synthesis in creating collages. We use the texture synthesis method proposed by Ashikhmin [1] to selectively copy patches of the source image o...
Stephen Ingram, Pravin Bhat
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Floating Labels: Applying Dynamic Potential Fields for Label Layout
Abstract. This paper introduces a new method to determine appealing placements of textual annotations for complex-shaped geometric models. It employs dynamic potential fields, whi...
Knut Hartmann, Kamran Ali, Thomas Strothotte
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Smart Garden: Plant Mail and Chat Environments
We describe a series of applications that involve interfaces that allow a certain amount of ”communication” with other living beings, in particular, plants. These interfaces al...
Daniel Rivera, Isaac Rudomín, Marissa D&iac...
SG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Animating 2D Digital Puppets with Limited Autonomy
In this paper we describe the graphical realization and authoring of a semi-autonomous animated persona, called a Digital Puppet. Digital Puppets augment on-line educational materi...
Erin Shaw, Catherine LaBore, Yuan-Chun Chiu, W. Le...