From kcurry@csgrad.cs.vt.edu Wed Feb 24 00:24:08 1999 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA15110 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:23:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA02230 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:23:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (root@quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id FAA19438 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 05:22:26 GMT Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08246; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:22:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from csgrad.cs.vt.edu (as5200-7.sl025.cns.vt.edu [128.173.38.132]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05886; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:22:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36D38D54.F250814F@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:25:40 -0500 From: Kevin Curry X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Conway CC: "3D UI List (E-mail)" <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: hi all References: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF0D953EEE@RED-MSG-52> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO i'm a little unclear about your request, but it sounds like your first thing is about what i refer to as "camera positions" and your second thing seems to be either about level-of-detail (LOD) or flying navigation. both cameras and LOD are key features in graphics packages like OpenGL and Performer and are thus covered in the documentation (you'd probably want the Programmer's Guide for each). flying and navigation are the subjects of stuff like saranav and pfNav. saranav is at http://www.sara.nl/hec/vr/cave/software/saranav.html , but i don't think it's what you want. Do you have access to the ACM Digital Library? KMC Matt Conway wrote: > Okay, this list has been pretty quiet....thought I'd reach out and > ask the crowd a question. > > I'm doing a quick lit search and I > want to make sure I'm being complete: > > Here's the context: three previous works > > The original "Point of Interest" navigation work : > * Rapid controlled movement through a virtual 3D workspace > D.Mackinlay, Stuart K.Card, and George G.Robertson; Conference proceedings > on Computer graphics , 1990, Pages 171 - 176 > * the pseudo-point-of-interest controls that you see in the Cosmo > player, > > * the Cyclopean Scale work that Colin Ware showed at the 3D symposium > a few years back > Context sensitive flying interface Colin Ware, and Daniel Fleet; Proceedings > of the 1997 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics , 1997, Page 127 > > are related to each other : they each scale the user's motion based on how > far the user is from > objects in the scene. Mackinlay et al scales user velocity, Ware scales the > world, both have a > similar effect: the system automatically slows the user down when the user > gets close to an object. > > Can you think of any other systems that did something like this? > -- Kevin M. Curry Graduate Research Assistant http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~kcurry VT-CAVE M.S. Candidate C.S.A., VPI & SU ** SPAM Notice: http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~kcurry/spamoff.htm **