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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Pages: 71 - 72

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-075-9

Authors

David Anderson	MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
James L. Frankel	Frankel and Associates, Inc., Lexington, MA and MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Joe Marks	MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Darren Leigh	MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Eddie Sullivan	MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Jonathan Yedidia	MERL-A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Kathy Ryall	University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science, Charlottesville, VA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We describe a tangible interface for building virtual structures using physical building blocks. We demonstrate two applications of our system. In one version, the blocks are used to construct geometric models of objects and structures for a popular game, Quake II™. In another version, buildings created with our blocks are rendered in different styles, using intelligent decoration of the building model.

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