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Spot

Spot

(past projects)

Ask Spot to find the opportunities to use or avoid direct day lighting over a period of time. A project's daylighting performance is strongly influenced by the general volume created at the beginning of the design process. Thanks to recent research, quick 3d models can be generated from early sketches. These models can then be analyzed over a period of time to quickly identify daylighting opportunities.
Spot
    sponsor: French Region Lorraine

last updated 8.25.2006 by Mark D Gross

Spot - the Movie
Spot - the Movie
 
2004
As if You Were Here - Intelligent Annotation in Space: Sketching as an Interface to Knowledge-Based Design Systems - pdf
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross
AAAI Fall Symposium - Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural AAAI Press, FS-04-06:pp 55-57

2004
A Computationally Enhanced Play Board For Group Interaction - pdf
Orit Shaer, Babak Ziraknejad, Ken Camarata, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross
Pervasive 2004 (Vienna) a Hot-Spot paper

2003
SPOT! Fetch Light! Interactive Navigable 3D Visualization of Direct Sunlight - pdf
Sebastien Bund, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
eCAADe 117-121

2003
Light Pen -- sketching light in 3D - pdf
Thomas Jung, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Proceedings of CAAD Futures Tainan, Taiwan

2003
Spot: A 3D Environment for Direct Sunlight Visualization - pdf
Sebastien Bund, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
CAAD Futures

2002
Navigational Blocks: navigating information space with tangible media - pdf
Ken Camarata, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Brian R Johnson, Mark D Gross
ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

2001
Navigational Blocks (an interplay between the physical and the virtual) - pdf
Ken Camarata
M.Arch thesis, University of Washington, Dept of Architecture

2001
Space Pen: Annotation and Sketching on 3D Models on the Internet - pdf
Thomas Jung, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
CAAD Futures CAAD Futures 2001, pp257-270.

 
MouseHaus Table
MouseHaus Table
OPviewers
OPviewers
 
3D Sketching to Knowledge-Based Lighting Design Systems
3D Sketching to Knowledge-Based Lighting Design Systems
Drawing_Presentation
Intuitive Digital Design: sketch, gesture and tangible interfaces
Intuitive Digital Design: sketch, gesture and tangible interfaces
eCAADe - SPOT! Fetch Light - Interactive Navigable 3D Visualization of Direct Sunlight
eCAADe - SPOT! Fetch Light - Interactive Navigable 3D Visualization of Direct Sunlight
the IRS presentation: Intuitive Design Interfaces
the IRS presentation: Intuitive Design Interfaces