Rybicki, Steven and Gain, James (2014) Skywriter: Drawing Curves from a First-Person Perspective, Proceedings of SAICSIT 2014, 28 September - 1 October 2014, Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa, 1-4.
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Abstract
Most research into sketching 3D non-planar curves is concerned with how best to take 2D input from a user to specify a 3D curve, exploiting familiarity with 2D sketches. Skywriter employs a different approach: instead of specifying a curve from a third-person perspective, users create curves by piloting a camera with a first-person perspective. We use depth cues, a cockpit-like heads up display and a simplified editing system to provide a system that is easy to learn without sacrificing accuracy. After testing with university students from different disciplines, we found that in comparison with a more traditional curve sketching approach, Skywriter is less accurate for complex curves that require large amounts of editing but is more accurate for simpler curves. Our usability tests also showed that Skywriter is slightly easier to use for the first time.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sketch-based Interfaces, Curve Drawing |
| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Computer graphics |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2014 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/980 |
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