Graphics & User Interfaces

Tool lets designers interactively edit and optimize CAD models

Eitan Grinspun and Changxi Zheng worked with MIT researchers to create InstantCAD, a plugin providing real-time feedback on how design changes affect performance.

FontCode: Hiding information in plain text, unobtrusively and across file types

FontCode imperceptibly changes, or perturbs, the shapes of fonts in ordinary text to embed hidden information, without the existence of the secret information being perceived.

Team from Steven Feiner’s lab wins Grand Prize at NYC Media Lab Summit

“Travel in Large-Scale Head-Worn VR” teleports users through virtual environments by allowing them to determine orientation in advance. Another project, “Remote Collaboration in AR and VR Using Virtual Replicas” won a third place finish.

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Graphics and user interface research includes animation, geometry processing, computational photography, augmented reality & virtual environments, rendering, human-computer interaction, acquisition of geometry and material properties, 3D user interfaces, computational mechanics, knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and wearable computing, computer games, information visualization, video and image processing, shape modeling.