Virtual Clay

Virtual Clay is a less precise term often used by mainstream press to describe Voxel Sculpting.

Voxel Sculpting is a voxel (3D pixel) based method of creating volumetric models. Unlike mesh models, these are like blocks of clay. The space filled entirely with three-dimensional pixels, and no hollow space in the centre. Thus, just like clay, it is possible to model by sculpting a voxel block - carving gouges out and teasing the material.

Whilst virtual, the modelling package used will react like the model is clay, imparting physics onto it, and allowing models to be produced in an extremely intuitive fashion.

Voxel sculpting is often combined with full VR hardware interface rigs to allow the modeller to feel the ?virtual clay? as they work. Once completed, the model may stay as a voxel sculpture, or be converted to a mesh-based model for import into other virtual environments.

See Also: Volumetric Rendering, Voxel

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.

Malleable Object Virtual Clay Voxel Sculpting

Voxel Sculpture

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Modeling the Figure in Clay

The parts specific to clay working are irrelevant to the virtual developer, but the general techniques and practices are invaluable if you choose to take this route, and create anatomically believable avatars. Ideal for working with weighted bone animation systems.

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

Julian Dibbell, freelance writer, and author of ?A Tiny Life? and other works chronicling the massive, disruptive impact of virtual lives on both the physical and the virtual. He tried a little experiment: was it possible to make more money from his forays into the virtual, buying and selling virtual items, than he makes as a successful writer?

Virtual worlds with real purposes
BBC Click examines the creation of a virtual copy of Berlin, intended as a space for virtual tourism.

Ditching the V-Word
A lovely escapist magazine article about why the ?virtual? in virtual worlds and virtual environments, has outlived its usefulness, and is doing more harm than good, to the industry.

Mugging ? on a Massive Virtual Scale

News from the 18th of August 2005, the first recorded case of a man arrested for mugging a great many people in a virtual world - and then taking their virtual goods, and selling them wholesale on an auction website. Industrial grade mugging - in a virtual world.

Virtual Property Theft ? Physical Murder

Industry news, from 01-04-2005. Hands up who saw this one coming? That?s right, you can all put your hands down now. Virtual property, existing only in a database server, has long been a hot topic in virtual reality, as to who actually owns it. Now, this case has reached a new level, with the murder of a man accused of stealing a virtual sword.

A Proposal of Marriage
A short, but pointed article about virtual marriage, both in the difficulties of a real marriage in the virtual, and how the emotional involvement changes things, and then a look at the roleplaying benefits of pretend virtual marriages ? as opposed to real virtual marriages.

Render Unto Caesar
Virtual worlds have shown themselves to have very real, and fairly powerful market forces when it comes to items from within them being traded openly on the internet. Time to stop arguing about the value of virtual, and start worrying about the reality of the virtual?

Virtual Human? How about Virtual Voice?
Previously featured Industry News from September 2003, looking at the Vocaloid technology - the creation of virtual singers using voice fonts from previous artists.

Virtual Limbs: Living with three arms
Virtual Reality is just beginning to head down the full body sensation reproduction path. We are at the very early stages of being able to recreate parts of the physical form, entirely in the virtual. This is a concept which is likely to have very a profound effect upon how we deal with the world around us.

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