3D modeling with three-view drawings

When modeling new geometries, artists and modelers tend to habitually document their creative imaginations through illustrating a set of three-view 2D images. These images are also easy to obtain for any geometry that already exists either in reality or in the cyberspace. However, due to the ambiguity of these three-view images in defining 3D models, automatic reconstruction of a geometry from them still carries serious technical limitations. This paper introduces a new system for rapid modeling of 3D free-form meshes from three-view images with the interactive user aid indicated via sketching. Distinct from the existing rapid sketching based 3D modeling methods, such as [Igarashi et al. 1999; Nelean et al. 2007], all of which require users to interactively illustrate the shape lines of the target object, the new system only expects users to select unwanted corners' shape lines from a set of 3D shape lines automatically extracted according to the input three-view images. For the model created through the Boolean operation, a particular UV mapping can be established that maps, via a one-to-one relationship, the input three-view images as texture onto the corresponding three sides of the constructed geometry.