DR. VALI LALIOTI

   Ndebele painting inVirtual Environments

1. Introduction

The aim of this project is to provide an Virtual Environment were Ndebele artists can create paintings as intuitive as in their usual creative process. This is a research work in progress. Therefore only some initial results and images of a first prototype demostrated in Cyberstage are shown here. We will update this site as the research progresses.
 

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2. The Research Approach

Prof. Lalioti, in collaboration with Mr. Juergen Wind and Mr. Gernot Goebbels from GMD, developed the methodology and supervised the implementation of an approach that allows Virtual Environments to be used for training and for producing Ndebele paintings (traditional african art made by Ndebele women). Mrs. P. Siluma, a first year Computer Science student of Ndebele origin provided the Ndebele patterns and requirements.  The system was developed by Mr. Pun and Mr. Mallan, third year Computer Science students, and was carried out at University of Pretoria and at GMD. The implementation was based on an extension of AVANGO developed by Mr. Wind.
 

3. Journal Publication

Ndebele Painting in VR, V. Lalioti, A. Malan, J. Pun and J. Wind,  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Journal, Projects in VR, March/April 2001.