Interactive Physics-Based Virtual Sculpting with Haptic Feedback

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Avirup Mandal, Parag Chaudhuri, Subhasis Chaudhuri

Published: 2022, Last Modified: 06 May 2026Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 2022EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Sculpting is an art form that relies on both the visual and tactile senses. A faithful simulation of sculpting, therefore, requires interactive, physically accurate haptic and visual feedback. We present an interactive physics-based sculpting framework with faithful haptic feedback. We enable cutting of the material by designing a stable, remeshing-free cutting algorithm called Improved stable eXtended Finite Element Method. We present a simulation framework to enable stable visual and haptic feedback at interactive rates. We evaluate the performance of our framework quantitatively and quantitatively through an extensive user study.