Intuitive Modelling

[Kuroyume0161]

That would indeed be really cool. I've seen dozens of papers about 2D sketch to 3D model - and I take it that this is by one of the authors. Yep, just do a search of the ACM Digital library for "Takeo Igarashi" and there they are. :)

Now, this shows direct drawing onto a monitor. Wonder how well it works with graphics tablets or, worse, a mouse/trackball? I'd think that the latter is useless for this as it is very hard to work this way with a mouse/trackball.

It'd also be nice to see if you can get something useful exported from this or converted if it were a plugin (into polygons). I have no idea how the form is currently stored (procedural, polygons, NURBS, ...).

Thanks for the link!

[Per-Anders]

Hasn't Teddy been done to death enough already? This software is years and years old now, and for some reason keeps on coming back up on CGTalk like a bad curry, as recently as a couple of weeks ago in the C4D forum (they even made an advanced version before it got was eventually integrated into Shade as "Magical Sketch"). Please do a search on "Teddy":

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=47&t=448112&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=2&t=405731&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=406816&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=406168&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=60&t=405989&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=109462&highlight=teddy
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=110444&highlight=teddy
... etc etc

[Kuroyume0161]

I agree (SketchUp as noted). But is there anything like this in Cinema 4D - this is what I think the original poster's direction was. :)

[LucentDreams]

and per's point was to read some of the many many MANY other discussions on this. its in a commercial app, Shade you can export the polygonal meshes to cinema if you like or the orignal code was bought by efrontier http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1204/1/553?sbss=553

[Creature]

Sorry, didn't know that this has been discussed that many times before. Just thought that it was something rather recent as the post on the blog I got it from is just a few months old.

Actually I don't think that there would be a lot of use for it in Cinema. Maybe as a seperate standalone program but certainly not in the Core. :) Just wanted to share the link as I thought no one knows about it ;)

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