Guided Exploration with Dynamic Potential Fields: the Cubical Path System

Exploring unknown models or scenes is a highly interactive and dynamic process. Systems for automatic presentation of models or scenes either require cinematographic rules, direct human interaction, framesets, or pre‐calculation of paths to a known goal. In this paper we present a system which can d...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum 2001-12, Vol.20 (4), p.201-211
Main Authors: Beckhaus, Steffi, Ritter, Felix, Strothotte, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animation
Automatic Camera Control
Dynamic Potential Fields
Guided Exploration
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Summary:Exploring unknown models or scenes is a highly interactive and dynamic process. Systems for automatic presentation of models or scenes either require cinematographic rules, direct human interaction, framesets, or pre‐calculation of paths to a known goal. In this paper we present a system which can deal with rapidly changing user interest in objects of a scene or model as well as with dynamic models and changes of the camera position introduced interactively by the user or through cuts. We describe CubicalPath, a new potential field‐based camera control system that helps with the exploration of virtual environments.
ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/1467-8659.00549