Spotlight Project: Adobe Repoussé
Adobe Research developed the 3D Repoussé shape engine in Photoshop CS5 which allows smooth organic forms to be realized with ease from two dimensional curves. The system can be used by novice users to inflate font curves and hand drawn shapes to produce beautiful 3D design graphics. The surface is created by interactively solving a linearized thin plate spline model with carefully crafted boundary conditions providing a high level of user control.