We present Wowtao, an easy-to-use pottery manufacture system to take digital creativity into the real world. Our approach is able to create customized pottery virtually on mobile phones or tablet computers interactively and quickly. Our work takes integration of the customer in product personalization into consideration to support personal design in pottery manufacture field.

Different from other virtual pottery design systems, our approach simulates the entire physical pottery design process, such as modeling, painting, seals, firing and customization, and provides the ability to have the designed results fabricated by real artists or a 3D printer. To make the designed results manufacturable by artists, our approach imposes some industrial constraints (both geometry and decorations) when the user designs his/her personalized potteries. Our method only requires simple and intuitive interactions, so even novices can follow the workflow to create pretty potteries easily. We optimize the design process to perform real-time operations. Our informal user study shows that a first-time user typically masters the operations within 10 minutes, and can construct interesting and satisfactory 3D pottery models within minutes.

我们展示了Wowtao，这是一种易于使用的陶器制造系统，可将数字创造力带入现实世界。我们的方法能够以交互和快速的方式在手机或平板电脑上虚拟地创建定制的陶器。我们的工作考虑了客户在产品个性化方面的整合，以支持陶器制造领域的个性化设计。

与其他虚拟陶艺设计系统不同，我们的方法模拟了整个物理陶艺设计过程，例如建模，绘画，印章，烧制和自定义，并提供了由真实艺术家或3D打印机制作的设计结果的能力。为了使设计的结果可由艺术家制造，当用户设计他/她的个性化陶器时，我们的方法强加了一些工业限制（几何和装饰）。我们的方法只需要简单而直观的交互，因此即使是新手也可以按照工作流程轻松地创建漂亮的陶器。我们优化设计流程以执行实时操作。我们的非正式用户研究表明，初次使用的用户通常会在10分钟内掌握操作，并且可以在几分钟内构建有趣且令人满意的3D陶器模型。