GESTURE MODELING FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

This paper presents an intuitive method to simulate architectural spac e and objects by using gesture modeling. This method applies hand move ments to retrieve data and generate objects under circumstances allowi ng larger tolerance. Communication between gesture (actor) and compute r (listener) is conducted with a set of basic components like gestures , regulations, and interfaces. The components are used as theoretical models to assist gesture-aided 3-D modeling. Gesture is analyzed by bo th surface and deep structures in syntactic structure. At the outset, persons of different backgrounds were requested to model a virtual bui lding. Several basic gesture types were concluded based on experiment categorization. The test result was used to build a theoretical model and conduct subsequent simulation. A 3-D digitizer associated with sof tware is applied as a communication interface between user and compute r. Gestures are simulated by moving a stylus held by one hand. Copyrig ht (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.