I am a PhD student from the HCI-E Group in CSAIL
at MIT.
I combine the theoretical discussions of the Design & Computation with experiments
into latent spaces of generative multimodal AI models to improve parametric and algorithmic
design paradigms. I co-founded
Construct(), a speech/gesture to blocks AI for
video games with building mechanics.
Prior to my work at MIT, I built an image to HBIM (heritage building information modeling)k
Construct(), a speech/gesture to blocks AI for Minecraft.
Prior to my work at MIT, I built an image to HBIM (heritage building information modeling)
pipeline for architectural heritage in Anatolia.
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▸ Design & Computation: Questions into perception and shared embeddings
In the study of design computation for architecture and industrial applications, parametric and algorithmic design occupy a central role. However, these approaches map design parameters to narrow solution spaces that often exclude the changes presented by iterations on drawings or physical prototypes. My ongoing thesis work combines image and text conditioned diffusion encoders to sample control vertices for weighted Bezier splines (NURBS) in million-dimensional latent vector spaces. Sampling from trajectories in the latent space using an INR (implicit neural representation) decoder, we find useful non-linear interpolations among 3d objects to mimic manipulation of pseudo parametric transformations. This work has potential use cases in architecture and construction, as well as industrial and medical applications' design. For this work, I created a custom NURBS implementation, optimized for splines in 1,000,000 dimensional vector spaces. Inverse Drawings,
Pixel Rules
▸ Virtual Reality and HCI: Work examples from my research at ESI
Parametric Paint-Over (previously Sketch-Vision)
Demircan Tas SMArchS thesis.
[DSpace]
[Presentation]
TeamCAD - A Multimodal Interface for Remote Computer Aided Design
Demircan Tas, Dimitrios Chatzinikolis Subjects report for 6.835, Intelligent Multimodal User Interfaces at MIT, Spring 2022.
[Paper]
[Video]
UNVEILING SPACES: Architecturally meaningful semantic descriptions from images of interior spaces
Demircan Tas, Rohit Priyadarshi Sanatani Project report for 6.869, Advances in Computer Vision at MIT, Spring 2022.
[Paper]