← Demircan Tas

Papers

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2026
Printed dragon mug repaired with InstructMesh
InstructMesh: Text-Guided Selective Refinements of Generative 3D Models for Fabrication
Faraz Faruqi, Ahmed Katary, Demircan Tas, Theresa Hradilak, Ning Zhang, Jiaji Li, Fabian Manhardt, Martin Nisser, Vrushank Phadnis, Ruofei Du, Federico Tombari, Megan Hofmann, Stefanie Mueller
UIST 2026.
[Paper]
Custom umbrella grip made with MiXR
MiXR: Harvesting and Recomposing Geometry from Real-World Objects for In-Situ 3D Design
Demircan Tas*, Faraz Faruqi*, Ning Zhang, Arthur Caetano, Dingning Cao, Niccolo G Meniconi, Oğuz Arslan, Misha Sra, Ruofei Du, Stefanie Mueller, Mustafa Doga Dogan
arXiv 2026.
[Paper]
Supporting Design Exploration through In-Situ Guidance for 3D Modeling
SooYeon Ahn*, Demircan Tas*, In-Chang Baek, Stefanie Mueller, Jin-Hyuk Hong
UIST 2026 Poster.
2024
Parametric Paint-Over
Parametric Paint-Over (previously Sketch-Vision)
Demircan Tas
SMArchS thesis, MIT.
[DSpace] [Presentation]
2022
TeamCAD: A Multimodal Interface for Remote Computer Aided Design
Demircan Tas, Dimitrios Chatzinikolis
Report for 6.835, Intelligent Multimodal User Interfaces, MIT, Spring 2022.
[Paper] [Video]
Unveiling Spaces
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, MIT, Spring 2022.
[Report]
2019 and earlier

Fotogrametri Verilerinde Gömülü Biçim Eşlemesiyle Yapısal Modellerin Oluşturulması
MSTAS 2019, Kocaeli, Turkey.

Photogrammetry based heritage modeling with shape embedding
Demircan Tas. Master's thesis, Istanbul Technical University, 2019. Supervisor: Mine Özkar.

A Design System for Crossing Gaps with Rheotomic Surfaces and Allometry
MSTAS 2018, Isparta, Turkey.

Generating Forms via Informed Motion: A Flight Inspired Method Based on Wind and Topography Data
Formal Methods in Architecture 2018, Porto, Portugal.