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

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

SESSION: Hands-On Interfaces table of contents

Pages: 355 - 362

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-453-3

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Ben Piper	MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Carlo Ratti	University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Hiroshi Ishii	MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

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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