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From: brucec%phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;)
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Subject: Re: VR in art - medium or instrument? (sculpture)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 21:39:17 GMT
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In article <11890@milton.u.washington.edu> mg@munnari.oz.au (Mike Gigante) write
s:
> 
> Robert Owen is a sculptor here who has experimented with conventional
> CG modellers in our lab. Conventional modelling tools are still
> very clumsy compared to physical (i.e. using your hands) for a large
> class of models.

Bet your life they're clumsy!

> 
> With a pair of gloves, eyephones and lots of software, we hope to make
> a really neat equivilent to clay modelling in VR space.

I'm salivating already.  That's almost everything I want.  The last little
item is something I forgot to mention in my original posting: haptic
feedback (including what we've been calling force-feedback in postings in
this group) in the gloves.  You can sculpt without feedback (at least
I think you can; can't say I've tried it), but I bet it feels like trying
to mold air with wooden paddles.  Mike, do you have plans to investigate
feedback?  The basic support in the original Dataglove, piezo-vibrators on
the fingers, might be enough to make a big difference, even if you can't
distinguish textures.
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