TY  - GEN
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
EP  - 12
AV  - public
Y1  - 2021/05/01/
SP  - 1
TI  - ArticuLev: An Integrated Self-Assembly Pipeline for Articulated Multi-Bead Levitation Primitives
A1  - Fender, A
A1  - Martinez Plasencia, D
A1  - Subramanian, S
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445342
PB  - ACM
ID  - discovery10123790
N2  - Acoustic levitation is gaining popularity as an approach to create physicalized mid-air content by levitating different types of levitation primitives. Such primitives can be independent particles or particles that are physically connected via threads or pieces of cloth to form shapes in mid-air. However, initialization (i.e., placement of such primitives in their mid-air target locations) currently relies on either manual placement or specialized ad-hoc implementations, which limits their practical usage. We present ArticuLev, an integrated pipeline that deals with the identification, assembly and mid-air placement of levitated shape primitives. We designed ArticuLev with the physical properties of commonly used levitation primitives in mind. It enables experiences that seamlessly combine different primitives into meaningful structures (including fully articulated animated shapes) and supports various levitation display approaches (e.g., particles moving at high speed). In this paper, we describe our pipeline and demonstrate it with heterogeneous combinations of levitation primitives.
ER  -