Click the image to display a video clip shown in YLE Kulttuuriuutiset on 13.10.2005

"Painted into air" on display at Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki) The works of art created with HELMA software are on display at Kiasma art museum from November 4th to 27th. Experience the three-dimensional paintings made by ten distinguished Finnish artists. By using special 3D glasses you can walk into the works and view them as freely as real sculptures.

Research foci Artistic free-hand expression Two-handed interaction methods Publications Wille Mäkelä and Tommi Ilmonen. Drawing, Painting and Sculpting in the Air. Development Studies about an Immersive Free-Hand Interface for Artists. In IEEE VR 2004 Workshop Proceedings, pp. 89-92. online Wille Mäkelä, Markku Reunanen, Tapio Takala and Tommi Ilmonen. Possibilities and Limitations of Immersive Free-Hand Expression: a Case Study with Professional Artists. In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2004, pp. 504-507. ACM link Tommi Ilmonen, Markku Reunanen and Petteri Kontio. Broadcast GL: An Alternative Method for Distributing OpenGL API Calls to Multiple Rendering Slaves. Journal of WSCG, vol. 13, nr. 2, 2005, pp. 65-72. online Wille Mäkelä. Working 3D Meshes and Particles with Finger Tips. Towards an Immersive Artists' Interface. In IEEE VR 2005 Workshop Proceedings, pp. 77-80. online Tommi Ilmonen and Markku Reunanen. Virtual Pockets in Virtual Reality. In Virtual Environments 2005, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium Proceedings, pp. 163-170. Markku Reunanen, Karri Palovuori, Tommi Ilmonen and Wille Mäkelä. Näprä - Affordable Fingertip Tracking with Ultrasound. In Virtual Environments 2005, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium Proceedings, pp. 51-58.

Hardware components EVE, the Experimental Virtual Environment Näprä. A low-cost finger tracker enabling fine motor painting. Material Screenshots: slippery skis. Drawn with an early prototype version. Videos: mermaid, slippery skis Software download Funding Tekes and partners: Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre Metso Paper Numerola Valkeus Interactive Team Tommi Ilmonen Wille Mäkelä Markku Reunanen Prof. Tapio Takala Prof. Karri Palovuori

Sketches created with Helma using a wand. Click a thumbnail for full size image.