Matisse is an interactive modeling system aimed at providing the public with a very easy way to design free-form 3D shapes. The user progressively creates a model by painting 2D regions of arbitrary topology while freely changing the view-point and zoom factor. Each region is converted into a 3D shape, using a variant of implicit modeling that fits convolution surfaces to regions with no need of any optimization step. We use intuitive,automatic ways of inferring the thickness and position in depth of each implicit primitive, enabling the user to concentrate only on shape design.
This software is a recent (2019) JavaScript implementation of the research prototype described in the article
[Bernhardt et al., SBIM 2008] using the blending operator from
[Bernhard et al., Eurographics/CGF 2010] and the SCALIS surfaces from
[Zanni et al., CGF 2013].
The software is provided under the CC BY-NC (free to reuse and distribute for non commercial usages).