Interacting with multi-perspective views: challenges and approaches

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Pasewaldt;Jürgen Döllner

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper discusses challenges and approaches of interaction and navigation techniques for multi-perspective views (MPVs) in the context of 3D geovirtual environments. In contrast to single-perspective views, MPVs seamlessly combine multiple views from different perspectives in one image to reduce occlusion and visual clutter while providing additional context information. 3D geovirtual environments often provide a single-perspective view and use interaction techniques that are based on ray-casting. The application of ray-cast based interaction techniques for MPVs introduces a number of technical challenges. We show how existing interaction techniques can be adapted for the application to multi-perspective city panoramas. Further, we introduce interaction techniques that enable a fast and directed exploration of virtual 3D building models based on multi-perspective detail+overview visualization.