This work is about a system to help novice users create animations quickly. The system is called K-Sketch and is a 2D animation sketching system.
In this system users first sketch objects and next create animations for those drawn objects such as translation, scaling and rotation.
This is similar to Flash’s tween capabilities and can be incorporated there
This work is a sketch-based game for collecting data on how people make and describe sketches. The system described collects drawings and attach the meta description the users provided.
To score points in this game, users must reconstruct a drawing based on a text description or vice-versa. In another phase, users are asked to judge the work of other players.
This paper is quite similar to the previous sketch game paper. But the idea is still fine.
This paper presents basically an image search where the input image is a sketch. The sketch is actually the edges of the image to be searched for. The feature of the images to which the sketch is compared is edge histogram.
It took 3 seconds to search a 1.5 million image bank which is a good performance I think.
The image comparison and image search solutions are becoming more widely used and those which rely on the edges can use sketch as their query since a sketch can be considered the edges of an image
The authors implemented a multi player sketching game in order to gather sketch data. One is called Picturephone and the other is Stellasketch.
In Picturephone, one player describes a sketch and the other draws it. In Stellasketch, players label a sketch drawn by a user individually. Finally, players rate various drawings to identify similarities
In Stellasketch a player draws something based on a clue and other players identify the sketch privately.
Both games seem fun to play especially Picturephone which is a sketch version of the telephone game.
This paper is about a Tablet PC application called InkSeine which supports active note taking by coupling a pen-and-ink interface with an in situ search facility that flows directly from a user’s ink notes.
Their user study showed users interest in having search results available in the context of surrounding notes and appreciate the ability to break searches down into multiple episodes so as to maintain attention on the primary note taking taks
This paper is a good human centered design project. I also think abandoning mouse and keyboard in favor of pen based interface must be accelerated.
Yet another paper on generating 3D models from 2D sketches.However this one is even more fun. It not only let the user to generate 3D meshes, but also let them alter its texture by which the user has a better idea of the final product.
This system was used to create new plush toys and was also tested on small kids
It is amazing that children connected to this program and it shows success
