As children, we loved to draw, but it was hard to play with our drawings because they were stuck on a sheet of paper. We decided to create an interface that changes the way users interact with their drawings: users draw characters on to paper, the programs puts them into an augmented reality universe of their own which the users can alter by hand in real time and watch the "Paper Mario" versions of their hand-drawn creations react accordingly.

This project attempts to better connect the user and the augmented reality by giving the user the 'god-like' ability to actually create a miniature world in augmented reality. The process resembles the stories in Genesis where god 'makes up' everything and places it into the world. 

First, an empty AR world is projected onto a 1 x 1 ft board. Then, users can draw shapes on paper and select what objects(animals, plants, cars, user themselves, etc.) this shape represents. Drawings are then captured by the camera, encoded with pre-written AI, and projected as movable onto the augmented reality. Users can also change the geography of the world by placing different AR markers onto the board. The objects are able to respond to the geography and interact with other objects, just like in the real world.