TeddyAR
This is an augmented reality (AR) app for Android implementing Teddy (Igarashi 1999), an inflation-based sketch-to-mesh algorithm.
(These GIFs take ~15 seconds.)
Constrained Delaunay Triangulation (CDT) is currently implemented using poly2tri, since it was fast enough to run in real-time. Specifically, the approach of Sloan 1992 (implemented here using tutorials from habrador.com) was much too slow.
"Teddy_C++" contains a C++ implementation which uses OpenGL. This is useful if you want to see Teddy in action with minimal setup. Just run "make" in the directory of "Teddy_C++", and run "./main". Draw in 2D using the cursor. The mesh will be generated automatically, after which you can drag using the cursor to rotate the camera and inspect the mesh. (However, the C++ program does not check for bad input and will segfault if the sketch is self-intersecting. The C# version does check for bad input, and simply has the user re-draw.) You can also hit "c" to toggle the results of the CDT, or "p" to toggle the results of the re-triangulation procedure.
"Teddy" contains the materials used for the Android app, which was developed in Unity (with scripts in C#.)
There are currently some issues with speed (takes ~10 - 15 seconds to do sketch-to-mesh conversion on a Samsung Galaxy S9, mesh manipulations like translation and enlarge/shrink are laggy), and a minor issue with mesh appearance. This project was intended as a proof of concept and as an exercise in AR, so the user interface is really only intuitive to the creator.
This project may be useful as an example of:
- using Google ARCore + Unity
- drawing in 2D screen coordinates
- creating, drawing, and manipulating meshes
- using plane detection
- C# programming
- an implementation of the Teddy drawing system
The PDF includes a further explanation of the Teddy algorithm and the app.