Research & Innovation
Draw a Star for a Highlight and a Moon for a Shadow, and the System Infers Where the Light Is
Every sketch-to-3D tool has the same flaw: the shading you drew becomes permanent texture, and the light cannot be moved. A team at Koç and Manchester asked art students what symbols they would use to mark highlights and shadows, took the two most common answers, and built a system that treats those marks as lighting intent rather than pigment.