Virtual Sculptor: A Feature Preserving Haptic Modeling System
Yan-Hong Lu, Wei-Teh Wang, Rung‐Huei Liang, Ming Ouhyoung · 2002
A real-time interactive modeling system with force-feedback devices and stereo rendering is presented. The proposed system is based on the Extended Marching Cube (EMC) al-gorithm, which provides sharp feature preservation. Users are also allowed to sculpt an object converted from existing mesh models generated from commercial packages via vox-elizaiton. By projecting on a spherical display device, the Virtual Sculptor forms an immersive environment. Further-more, this fast prototyping tool can also be used as a useful query interface of 3D content retrieval that enables the func-tionality of modifying more delicate models from the results queried by the rough model.