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Digital Sandbox, integrating landform making and analysis for landscape design
    Artificial Intelligence in Design, AID '02, pp 165-188 JS Gero (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002
    abstract:
    Digital Sandbox is a computational tool for landscape architecture design that provides design and analysis capabilities in the same environment. It uses image processing of hand gestures to infer the landform sculpting actions and simulates storm water accumulation over the digital terrain