May 2022

Description: A Maya plugin for stylized 3D surface deformation. Our authoring tool takes an input mush and deforms it to exhibit cube-like geometry while preserving surface detail. We also extended the implementation to include other non-cubic shapes such tetrahedrons, octahedrons, etc. Here’s a short video of our tool in action:

Teammates: Nick Moon

Papers:

• Cubic Stylization, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu and Alec Jacobson, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
• Normal Driven Spherical Shape Analogies, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu and Alec Jacobson, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021

Features:

• Basic cubification of shapes through minimization of ARAP energy
• Extension to other polyhedral target shapes (tetrahedron, octahedron, etc.)
• Per-vertex deformation factors
• Per-axis deformation factors
• Local or global deformation options
• Can upload gauss map to constrain deformation to certain area of shape
• “Reduction percentage” to reduce the number of polygons in a mesh before deformation (optimization)