An Examination of a Support Tool for Designing Shadow Box Art

We examine a system that supports creating shadow box art works. The creators of shadow box art carefully determine the number of layers and their shapes to cut out, considering how shadows fall and the thickness of the frame. We investigate the crafting process and design our prototype functions: (1) a user interface for designing shadow box art, (2) a simple viewer considering shadows using 3DCG, and, (3) reducing paper footprint by rearranging cut-out parts. Through creating actual artworks, we confirm that our system enables the user to make layer design smoothly and the creation of shadow box art relatively easily.