LTouchIt at the WSCG 2011

We will present a full paper at the International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG) about the preliminary work on a virtual LEGO modeler for multi-touch surfaces - LTouchIt. The LTouchIt project is a follow-up of the LSketchIt project, which focused on virtual LEGO modeling using calligraphic interfaces and 3D retrieval.

Using LTouchIt to create a LEGO model

EditION presented in Sketch Workshop

Last Monday I presented the paper titled "EditION: A Collaborative Calligraphic Tool to Manage Virtual Environments" at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing workshop Sketch Tools for Diagramming held on Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. An electronic version of the paper can be downloaded from the on line proceedings.

Hybrid Shape Descriptor by P.Papadakis

In the Eurographics 2008 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, Papadakis Panagiotis et.al. presented a paper titled 3D Object Retrieval using an Efficient and Compact Hybrid Shape Descriptor". Since I was very interested in this work but was not able to find it online, I send an email to Papadikis Panagiotis asking him for a copy. His quick answer (in less than twenty minutes I have the printed paper in my hands) was extraordinary and motivating. If the proposed technique is as faster as its author, it will be a blast!