Design 3D Lava Lamps With Gestures On Handy-Potter
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Purdue's Handy-Potter works with Kinect to create 3D shapes.
Purdue University
Gestural interfaces like the [/news/leap-motion-gesture-techs-come-hither-allure/ Leap] promise a world in which we'll all be driving cars and flying planes by waving our hands in the air, "Minority Report"-style.
Pudue University is joining the fun with the [ Handy-Potter], a design tool that lets you fashion 3D virtual objects with your bare hands.
Recently presented at the [ ASME 2012] International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference in Chicago, http://soulofcricketer.website2.me/blog/dipika-pallikal-karthik-information the research won the All-Conference Best Paper award.
The Handy-Potter is a departure from traditional computer-aided design. It works with the Microsoft Kinect to track the user's body and hand gestures, modifying 3D shapes according to motions such as waving or pulling.