Unleashing Creativity With the Xbox Kinect
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Design Engineering Collaborative at UC Berkeley Unleashing Creativity With the Xbox Kinect A Microsoft Mindsumo Challenge Submission By Grant Buster
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Unleashing Creativity With the Xbox Kinect. A Microsoft Mindsumo Challenge Submission By Grant Buster. Design Engineering Collaborative at UC Berkeley. For this challenge I focused on:. Using the Xbox Kinect to: Create an empowered design tool Promote 3D artistic expression - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Unleashing Creativity With the Xbox Kinect
A Microsoft Mindsumo Challenge Submission
By Grant Buster
For this challenge I focused on:
Using the Xbox Kinect to:Create an empowered design toolPromote 3D artistic expressionMake freeform modeling capable and funRemove limits on creative expression
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Traditional sketching is…
BeautifulFreeformLimited to a 2D plane
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3D printing pens (3Doodler) are…
Awesome for sketches but cannot make computer models
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Current 3D modeling software is great at…
Engineering modelingExtrusionsRotations
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Current 3D modeling software is also bad at…
Abstract shapes3D Art
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But why limit design of 3 dimensional objects
to a 2 dimensional computer screen?
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This is where the Xbox Kinect comes in…
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Let’s develop a 3D drawing software.
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You could draw anything in 3D using…
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An Infrared Pen with variable intensity
The Xbox Kinect
A standard computer
The GUI would be a combination of…
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Photoshop tools & Solidworks tools
With visual feedback as to where your pen is
The software would…
Acquire the 3D location of the infrared pen using the Kinect’s stereo imaging.Read the intensity of the infrared signal and translate it to the “brush stroke” weight. Determine the orientation of the pen for ideal brush paths.Correlate the velocity of brush strokes with brush weight. Use the GUI’s user input to apply the specified 2D cross section for the “brush”.Output a 3D model of what the user draws.
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This would be a better interface than Leap Motion because…
Leap Motion’s sensor is limited to a 2x2x2 foot cube. The Xbox Kinect can image an entire room.Current Leap Motion software is good at using you hand positions to manipulate, rotate and exhibit current models. From the Leap Motion website: “you can point, wave, reach, and grab. Even pick something up and put it down.” Creating something is a different story…This Kinect software would change the way people create things from scratch in 3D, as opposed to just manipulating them.
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This proposed software would fuse the raw creativity of drawing with the
beauty of 3D modeling in a revolutionary new experience. Imagine
play dough for the 21st century.
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The Kinect has been used for gaming, robotics, education, and even fitness. I think it’s time to be
used to empower the design community.
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Thank you for your consideration!
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