This project is hosted at: https://wissiak.github.io/CubeNet-Visualizer/
The new version with AR mode is hosted at: https://cube-nets.ch
This project resulted from an interdisciplinary course by a group of students composed of students specializing in therapeutic pedagogy and IT students. From our different backgrounds we have discovered spatial thinking as a problem domain for primary and secondary school students. Our goal is to offer a service for these students to solidate their understanding in spatial thinking. The specific problem we focus on is the folding of cube nets since this is a common exercise for primary and secondary school students in Switzerland. Today, these exercises often took place by cutting out a cube net by hand, folding and glueing it which is both time consuming and error prone. With our application this process is simplified by virtualization which also brings other advantages as reversing steps or trying out other cube nets.
Our vision was based on an Augmented Reality solution in which students could use their phones to scan their exercise sheets for cube nets and the respective cube net is then virtually projected on the camera feed on the student's phone. The students should then be able to virtually fold the cube directly on their phones.
showcase.mov
- Visualization of a cube net in a virtual 3D space
- Interaction to fold the cube net into a 3D object
- Menu with 11 different cubes to choose from
- Understandable visualizations and animations
- Toggleable setting for animations
- Toggleable setting for helper arrows
- Open the web application in your browser.
- Select a cube from the menu.
- Interact with the cube net to fold a cube.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.