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CavePainting

CavePainting is an artistic medium that uses a 3D analog of 2D brush strokes to create 3D works of art in an immersive virtual reality Cave environment. Like charcoal lines or paint strokes, these 3-dimensional marks are a fluid, highly flexible visual language that is brought to life by an interface responsive to the artist. The virtual reality interface is composed completely of physical props and gestures.

There are several ongoing artistic collaborations using the system. In addition, researchers are currently investigating leveraging artistic theory and lessons learned about visual representation in the Cave to help solve visual representation problems in scientific domains.

Project status: Active

Project Home Page: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dfk/cavepainting/index.html

Publications

Keefe, D., Karelitz, D., Vote, E., and Laidlaw, D. H. Artistic Collaboration in Designing VR Visualizations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 25, 2 (Mar. 2005), 18-23. [ pdf ]

Keefe, D., and Laidlaw, D. H. A Haptic Interface for Creating Smooth 3D Curves with Varying Line Weight. In Proceesings SIGGRAPH, Posters Program (2005). [ pdf ]

Leyton, M., DeCarlo, D., Laidlaw, D. H., and Leymarie, F. Panel: Computational Aspects of Paintings. In Proceedings of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (Nov. 2004).

Kirby, M., Keefe, D., and Laidlaw, D. H. Painting and Visualization. In Visualization Handbook, C. R. Johnson and C. Hansen, Eds. Academic Press, June 2004. [ pdf ]

LaViola, J., Keefe, D., Zeleznik, R., and Acevedo, D. Case Studies in Building Custom Input Devices for Virtual Environment Interaction. In VR 2004 Workshop: Beyond Glove and Wand Based Interaction (Chicago, IL, Mar. 2004). [ pdf ]

Karelitz, D., Keefe, D., and Laidlaw, D. H. Using CavePainting to Create Scientific Visualizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (Oct. 2003), p. 109. [ pdf ]

Karelitz, D., Keefe, D., and Laidlaw, D. H. Using CavePainting to Create Scientific Visualizations. Master's thesis, Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2003. [ pdf ]

Rubin, C. B., and Keefe, D. Hiding Spaces: A Cave of Elusive Immateriality. In SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications (July 2002). [ pdf ]

Zeleznik, R., LaViola, J., Acevedo, D., and Keefe, D. Pop through buttons for virtual environment navigation and interaction. In Proceedings of Virtual Reality 2002 (Mar. 2002), pp. 127-134. [ pdf ]

Schkolne, S., and Keefe, D. Visual Space After Virtual Reality. In Young VR 2001 (Dec. 2001). [ pdf ]

Keefe, D., Acevedo, D., Moscovich, T., Laidlaw, D. H., and LaViola, J. CavePainting: A Fully Immersive 3D Artistic Medium and Interactive Experience. In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Mar. 2001), pp. 85-93.

LaViola, J., Acevedo, D., Keefe, D., and Zeleznik, R. Hands-Free Multi-Scale Navigation in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Mar. 2001), pp. 9-15.