From: mg@munnari.oz.au (Mike Gigante)
Subject: Re: VR in art - medium or instrument?
Date: 28 Nov 90 21:23:13 GMT

brucec%phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;) writes:

>Some examples:

>Sculpture - I would love to be able to put on a pair of gloves and a
>    set of goggles and sculpt marble (or light or water or clouds or ...)
>    with my bare hands the way I can sculpt clay.  You could even sculpt
>    moving pieces by moving them and marking positions as keyframes, which
>    leads to ...

This is our current plan (as soon as we finish aquiring the gear)

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.

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

Ask me  again in 6 months how it is working out..

Mike Gigante, RMIT Australia
mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au