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Rapid controlled movement through a virtual 3D workspace
Abstract
Computer graphics hardware supporting real-time interactive 3D animation has the potential to support effective user interfaces by enabling virtual 3D workspaces. However, this potential requires development of viewpoint movement techniques that support rapid and controlled movement through workspaces. Rapid movement through large distances avoids wasted work time; controlled movement near target objects allows the user to examine and interact with objects in the workspace. Current techniques for viewpoint movement typically use high velocities to cover distances rapidly, but high velocities are hard to control near objects. This paper describes a new technique for targeted viewpoint movement that solves this problem. The key idea is to have the user indicate a point of interest (target) on a 3D object and use the distance to this target to move the viewpoint logarithmically, by moving the same relative percentage of distance to the target on every animation cycle. the result is rapid motion over distances that slows as the viewpoint approaches the target object. The technique can be used with 2D and multidimensional input devices. We also extend the technique to move objects in the workspace.
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- Authors
- Mackinlay, J. D., Card, S. K., & Robertson, G. G.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1990-09
- Pages
- 171-176
- OpenAlex
- W2134835560
- Cited by
- 316
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 6.34
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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