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Designing Plush Toys With a Computer
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1870/111609_rcast_Designing_Plush_Toys.large.jpg?1258565449&1258565447 "Plushie 3D model and resulting plush toy")
The Plushie system uses simple sketches to create a 3D plush-toy model and 2D cloth pattern which can be printed and sewed together to construct a real plush toy.
Credit: http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yuki/plushie/index-e.html
We introduce Plushie, an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys. We successfully demonstrated that nonprofessional users could design plush toys or balloon easily using Plushie.
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