Guided exploration with dynamic potential fields: the CubicalPath system

Exploring unknown models or scenes is a highly interactive and dynamic proc ess. Systems for automatic presentation of models or scenes either require cinematographic rules, direct human interaction, framesets, or pre-calculat ion of paths to a known goal. In this paper we present a system which can d eal with rapidly changing user interest in objects of a scene or model as w ell as with dynamic models and changes of the camera position introduced in teractively by the user or through cuts. We describe Cubical Path, a new po tential field-based camera control system that helps with the exploration o f virtual environments.