String Sculptures Editor in Virtual Environment
Martin Bezděka, Jiří Sochor · 2013
We present a new approach for editing string sculptures in virtual environments. The string sculptures consist of a set of rigid objects (hoops) connected by tightened strings. The main aim of the newly created environment is to enable the artists to design and interactively modify the string sculptures. This can be done by using features of virtual environment where users can manipulate objects by using their hands which control the whole scene as well as a set of tools. Moreover, virtual environment enables to arrange the final appearance of the sculpture in a more natural and straightforward way. Our environment was integrated into the VRECKO system for virtual reality developed at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. This integration enhanced the whole manipulation and perception of the virtual environment by using various devices, such as OptiTrack system for capturing positions of objects in 3D space. In addition, our environment enables to finally test the stability of the designed sculpture by using the PhysX TM library[4] for physical simulation.