Tactum is an augmented modeling tool that lets you design 3D printed wearables directly on your body. It uses depth sensing and projection mapping to detect and display touch gestures on the skin. A person can simply touch, poke, rub, or pinch the geometry projected onto their arm to customize ready-to-print, ready-to-wear forms.
Tactum extracts features from the user’s body to generate the interactive digital geometry that is projected onto the skin. This embeds a level of ergonomic intelligence into the form: wearable designs are inherently sized to fit the designer. Tactum also embeds 3D printing fabrication constraints into the geometry. No matter how the designer manipulates the projected forms, every design is always ready to be 3D printed and worn back on the body.
INTUITIVE GESTURE, PRECISE GEOMETRY
Gestures within Tactum are designed to be as natural as possible: as you touch, poke, or pinch your skin, the projected geometry responds as dynamic feedback. Although these gestures are intuitive and expressive, they are also fairly imprecise. Their minimum tolerance is around 20mm (the approximate size of a fingertip). While this is adequate when designing some wearables, like in the example above, it is inadequate for designing wearables around precise, existing object.
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