CubicalPath-dynamic potential fields for guided exploration in virtual environments

Abstract

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 precalculation of paths to a known goal. We are looking for 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. In this paper we describe CubicalPath, a new potential field-based camera control system that helps with the exploration of virtual environments.