"Deep Cut": An all-in-one Geometric Algorithm for Unconstrained Cut, Tear and Drill of Soft-bodies in Mobile VR
This addresses the need for more interactive and efficient soft-body manipulation in mobile VR applications, reducing manual design costs, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing geometric and deformation methods.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling unconstrained cutting, tearing, and drilling of soft-body models in mobile VR without prior constraints, resulting in a framework that provides real-time performance and improves user experience and task efficiency.
In this work, we present an integrated geometric framework: "deep- cut" that enables for the first time a user to geometrically and algorithmically cut, tear and drill the surface of a skinned model without prior constraints, layered on top of a custom soft body mesh deformation algorithm. Both layered algorithms in this frame- work yield real-time results and are amenable for mobile Virtual Reality, in order to be utilized in a variety of interactive application scenarios. Our framework dramatically improves real-time user experience and task performance in VR, without pre-calculated or artificially designed cuts, tears, drills or surface deformations via predefined rigged animations, which is the current state-of-the-art in mobile VR. Thus our framework improves user experience on one hand, on the other hand saves both time and costs from expensive, manual, labour-intensive design pre-calculation stages.