Takeo Igarashi

Chateau : A Suggestive Interface for 3D Drawing

Chateau is a simple 3D drawing system that demonstrates suggestive interface. You can make 3D models such as houses and buildings without explicit buttons and menus. It runs on Windows platforms (DirectX 3- is required), with a 32-bit Java VM (it does not run on 64-bit Java VM).

Download Chateau(chatau.zip 523KB, including manual)

Please "README.txt" in the archive. The archive contains a brief manual. Chateau is a research prototype. We cannot provide support for this.

Additional resources

Demonstration video clip (5min) AVI(77MB), QuickTime(14MB)
Technical description (ACM UIST 2001, PDF)

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