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Illuminating clay: a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis

Piper, Ben, Ratti, Carlo, Ishii, Hiroshi·2002·Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper describes a novel system for the real-time computational analysis of landscape models. Users of the system - called Illuminating Clay - alter the topography of a clay landscape model while the changing geometry is captured in real-time by a ceiling-mounted laser scanner. A depth image of the model serves as an input to a library of landscape analysis functions. The results of this analysis are projected back into the workspace and registered with the surfaces of the model.We describe a scenario for which this kind of tool has been developed and we review past work that has taken a similar approach. We describe our system architecture and highlight specific technical issues in its implementation.We conclude with a discussion of the benefits of the system in combining the tangible immediacy of physical models with the dynamic capabilities of computational simulations.

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Authors
Piper, B., Ratti, C., & Ishii, H.
Venue
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2002-04-20
Pages
355-362
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W2130877787
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406
References
9
FWCI
11.05
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Piper, B., Ratti, C., & Ishii, H. (2002). Illuminating clay: a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503439

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