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Guided Exploration with Dynamic Potential Fields: the Cubical Path System
Author(s) -
Beckhaus Steffi,
Ritter Felix,
Strothotte Thomas
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.00549
Subject(s) - computer science , computer vision , process (computing) , computer graphics (images) , artificial intelligence , position (finance) , field (mathematics) , path (computing) , presentation (obstetrics) , human–computer interaction , mathematics , medicine , finance , pure mathematics , economics , radiology , programming language , operating 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 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.