3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces

Today's fast growth of both the number and complexity of digital 3D models results in a number of research challenges. Amongst others, the efficient presentation of, and interaction with, such complex models is essential. It therefore has become more and more important to provide the user with a smart visual interface that presents all the information required in the context of the task at hand in a comprehensive way. In this paper, we present a two-stage concept for the task-oriented exploration of 3D polygonal meshes. An authoring tool uses a combination of automatic mesh segmentation and manual enrichment with semantic information for association with specified exploration goals. This information is then used at runtime to adapt the model's presentation to the task at hand. The exploration of the enriched model can further be supported by interactive tools. 3D lenses are discussed as an example.

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