Zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) have been studied for a long time and many applications are built upon them. Most applications, however, only use two dimensions to express the content. This report presents a solution using all three dimensions where the base features are built as a framework with uniform grids and scene graphs as primary data structures. The purpose of these data structures is to improve performance while maintaining flexibility when creating and handling three-dimensional objects. A 3D-ZUI is able to represent the view of the world and its objects in a more lifelike manner. It is possible to interact with the objects much in the same way as in real world. By developing a prototype framework as well as some example applications, the usefulness of 3D-ZUIs is illustrated. Since the framework relies on abstraction and object-oriented principles it is easy to maintain and extend it as needed. The currently implemented data structures are well motivated for a large scale 3D-ZUI in terms of accelerated collision detection and picking and they also provide a flexible base when developing applications. It is possible to further improve performance of the framework, for example by supporting different types of culling and levels of detail

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:14:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 61080100012.pdf: 349585 bytes, checksum: c166ddca584efaa59fe8373e748ad30e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z / Através de um estudo de caso, este trabalho apresenta evidências empíricas que reforçam e ampliam as descobertas de trabalhos anteriores sobre as contribuições dos modelos 3D digitais no processo de inovação tecnológica de uma empresa da indústria de manufatura, e oferece contribuições para a academia e para a prática. A inovação tecnológica é um dos fatores essenciais da competição e do desenvolvimento industrial. Na medida em que as mudanças tecnológicas ocorrem em complexidade e ritmo crescentes, as empresas têm procurado aumentar a flexibilidade e a velocidade de suas atividades através de sofisticados sistemas de tecnologia de informação e de comunicações. Na indústria de manufatura, os modelos 3D digitais têm sido cada vez mais utilizados ao longo do ciclo de vida dos produtos das empresas e a sua difusão não apenas tornou-os elementos chave para o processo de inovação tecnológica, mas a sua adoção está forçando muitas empresas a rever a forma como elas conduzem e gerenciam suas atividades de inovação. / Through a case study, this work presents empiric evidences proving and enlarging the discoveries of previous works about the contributions of 3D digital models to the technological innovation process of manufacturing industry. It also contributes to the academy and to the practice. The technological innovation is one of the essential factors of competition and industrial development. As technological changes happen in growing flexibility and rhythm, the organizations have been trying to increase the flexibility and the speed of its activities through sophisticated information technologies and communication systems. In the manufacturing industry, the 3D digital models have been used more and more along the product life cycles of the organizations and their diffusion didn’t just turn them into key elements to the technological innovation process: their adoption is also forcing many organizations to review the way they conduct and manage their innovation activities.

L’impact négatif de l’automobile sur l’environnement a entraîné une sévérisation des normes législatives pour protéger celui-ci. Les difficultés rencontrées lors de l’amélioration du rendement du moteur à allumage commandé, résultent principalement de son fonctionnement inefficace à charges partielles. La distribution variable est capable d'améliorations concernant la réduction de la consommation de carburant, surtout dans une zone d’utilisation fréquente : basses charges et bas régimes. Une alternative à l’étude expérimentale est l’approche par simulation numérique, CFD en utilisant le logiciel ANSYS-Fluent. Dans cette thèse de doctorat, le but principal a été de déterminer les vitesses d’écoulement du fluide pendant le processus d’admission pour deux lois de levée de la soupape, pour un moteur entraîné à 815 tr/min et une ouverture du papillon de gaz de 21.6°. Dans ce but, on a utilisé deux modèles de simulation numérique: un modèle bidimensionnel et un modèle tridimensionnel. L’étude réalisée par simulation numérique a permis de clarifier quelques aspects importants concernant les vitesses d’écoulement de l’air dans le cylindre et le degré de turbulence. / The negative impact of automobiles on the environment has led to increased severity in the legislation concerning environmental protection. The problems encountered in the efforts intended to improve the efficiency of the spark ignition engine are derived from its inefficient operation under partial loads. The variable intake valve lift is capable of significant changes aiming at lower fuel consumption, especially in the frequent use area: low torque, low speed. An alternative to the experimental study of fluid flow is the approach by numerical simulation, CFD, using the software ANSYS-Fluent. The main purpose of the present doctoral thesis was to determine the fluid flow velocity during the intake, for two intake valve lift laws, when the engine is running at 815 rpm, and with an opening of the throttle plate at 21.6°. To do this, we have used two numerical simulation models: one two-dimensional, and one three-dimensional. The study by numerical simulation made it possible to clarify some important issues regarding the air flow velocity into the cylinder, and the level of turbulence.

Virtuelle 3D-Modelle finden in den historischen Disziplinen in zweierlei Art Verwendung. Zum einen dienen diese zur Erfassung und Digitalisierung existierender historischer Objekte. Daneben dient die Erstellung von virtuellen 3D-Rekonstruktionen der Nachbildung nicht mehr existierender Objekte und Strukturen. Während technische Abläufe beider Ansätze ebenso wie methodische und wissenschaftstheoretische Aspekte in der Fachliteratur häufig und umfassend thematisiert werden, ist eine Frage nach sozialen Aspekten und sozialer Interaktion im Kontext derartiger Vorhaben bisher unbeleuchtet geblieben. Ziel der Arbeit stellt dar, eine Bandbreite und Relevanz von Aspekten der Kooperation als „Zusammenarbeit mit gemeinsamem Ziel, gegenseitiger Abstimmung, planvollem Vorgehen sowie Vorteilen für alle Akteure“ (Hagenhoff, 2004) im Kontext derartiger geschichtswissenschaftlicher 3D-Modellierungsvorhaben mittels sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden zu beleuchten. Dabei zielt eine Darlegung auf unterschiedliche Skalierungen von Kooperation ab – angefangen bei einer Wissenschaftslandschaft über Kooperationsstrukturen bis hin zu einer Betrachtung von spezifischen Kooperationsphänomenen und -strategien innerhalb von Arbeits- und Erstellungsprozessen.

Un nombre croissant d’applications graphiques 3D ont un impact sur notre société. Ces applications sont utilisées dans plusieurs domaines allant des produits de divertissement numérique, la conception assistée par ordinateur, aux applications médicales. Dans ce contexte, un moteur de recherche d’objets 3D avec de bonnes performances en résultats et en temps d’exécution devient indispensable. Nous proposons une nouvelle méthode pour l’indexation de modèles 3D basée sur des courbes fermées. Nous proposons ensuite une amélioration de notre méthode pour l’indexation partielle de modèles 3D. Notre approche commence par la définition d’une nouvelle fonction d’application invariante. Notre fonction d’application possède des propriétés importantes : elle est invariante aux transformations rigides et non rigides, elle est insensible au bruit, elle est robuste à de petits changements topologiques et elle ne dépend pas de paramètres. Cependant, dans la littérature, une telle fonction qui respecte toutes ces propriétés n’existe pas. Pour respecter ces propriétés, nous définissons notre fonction basée sur la distance de diffusion et la distance de migration pendulaire. Pour prouver les propriétés de notre fonction, nous calculons le graphe de Reeb de modèles 3D. Pour décrire un modèle 3D complet, en utilisant notre fonction d’application, nous définissons des courbes de niveaux fermées à partir d’un point source détecté automatiquement au centre du modèle 3D. Chaque courbe décrit alors une région du modèle 3D. Ces courbes créent un descripteur invariant à différentes transformations. Pour montrer la robustesse de notre méthode sur différentes classes de modèles 3D dans différentes poses, nous utilisons des objets provenant de SHREC 2012. Nous comparons également notre approche aux méthodes de l’état de l’art à l’aide de la base SHREC 2010. Pour l’indexation partielle de modèles 3D, nous améliorons notre approche en utilisant la technique sacs de mots, construits à partir des courbes fermées extraites, et montrons leurs bonnes performances à l’aide de la base précédente / A growing number of 3D graphic applications have an impact on today’s society. These applications are being used in several domains ranging from digital entertainment, computer aided design, to medical applications. In this context, a 3D object search engine with a good performance in time consuming and results becomes mandatory. We propose a novel approach for 3D-model retrieval based on closed curves. Then we enhance our method to handle partial 3D-model retrieval. Our method starts by the definition of an invariant mapping function. The important properties of a mapping function are its invariance to rigid and non rigid transformations, the correct description of the 3D-model, its insensitivity to noise, its robustness to topology changes, and its independance on parameters. However, current state-of-the-art methods do not respect all these properties. To respect these properties, we define our mapping function based on the diffusion and the commute-time distances. To prove the properties of this function, we compute the Reeb graph of the 3D-models. To describe the whole 3D-model, using our mapping function, we generate indexed closed curves from a source point detected automatically at the center of a 3D-model. Each curve describes a small region of the 3D-model. These curves lead to create an invariant descriptor to different transformations. To show the robustness of our method on various classes of 3D-models with different poses, we use shapes from SHREC 2012. We also compare our approach to existing methods in the state-of-the-art with a dataset from SHREC 2010. For partial 3D-model retrieval, we enhance the proposed method using the Bag-Of-Features built with all the extracted closed curves, and show the accurate performances using the same dataset

This thesis deals with the concept of virtual reality, its history, present-day possibilities and available devices and technologies for virtual reality and ways of creating assets such as models, textures and animations for virtual reality applications. The practical part of this work deals with design and creation of three-dimensional models, textures, animations and environment for use in interactive application in virtual reality and also with design and creation of such application to demonstrate their use.

This master's thesis deals with the possibilities of using open source 3D game engine Java Monkey Engine (jME) in developing applications for the Android platform. It includes theoretical knowledge for the jMonkey Engine architecture and the Android platform. In the following section, the thesis describes used techniques and external libraries in solving issues of interaction between jME and Android platform and of working with objects in the 3D scene and their way of implementation.

Virtuelle 3D-Modelle finden in den historischen Disziplinen in zweierlei Art Verwendung. Zum einen dienen diese zur Erfassung und Digitalisierung existierender historischer Objekte. Daneben dient die Erstellung von virtuellen 3D-Rekonstruktionen der Nachbildung nicht mehr existierender Objekte und Strukturen. Während technische Abläufe beider Ansätze ebenso wie methodische und wissenschaftstheoretische Aspekte in der Fachliteratur häufig und umfassend thematisiert werden, ist eine Frage nach sozialen Aspekten und sozialer Interaktion im Kontext derartiger Vorhaben bisher unbeleuchtet geblieben. Ziel der Arbeit stellt dar, eine Bandbreite und Relevanz von Aspekten der Kooperation als „Zusammenarbeit mit gemeinsamem Ziel, gegenseitiger Abstimmung, planvollem Vorgehen sowie Vorteilen für alle Akteure“ (Hagenhoff, 2004) im Kontext derartiger geschichtswissenschaftlicher 3D-Modellierungsvorhaben mittels sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden zu beleuchten. Dabei zielt eine Darlegung auf unterschiedliche Skalierungen von Kooperation ab – angefangen bei einer Wissenschaftslandschaft über Kooperationsstrukturen bis hin zu einer Betrachtung von spezifischen Kooperationsphänomenen und -strategien innerhalb von Arbeits- und Erstellungsprozessen.

The purpose of this study was to gain insights of which design guidelines are vital for developing anavigation solution with Augmented Reality from a usability perspective. We wanted to raise awarenessof how the technology could be used to enable both indoor and outdoor navigation.Design Science Research (DSR) was applied as the research methodology, and created prerequisites toidentify problems connected to Luleå University of Technology’s existing map. The study applied the 7steps of the design thinking process, which made it possible to identify the problems. Through surveysand qualitative interviews in combination with observations, it was possible to create an overall picture ofthe problems to understand the users needs. Based on the feedback from the user tests, the prototype couldbe developed and improved.In the second step, 4 themes were set up based on the empirical data collected, which were Navigation,Augmented Reality, General design and Feedback. These themes followed as a common threadthroughout the study and were used to structure the design guidelines and to develop the prototype. Ourstudy shows the importance of throughout the process carry out a consistent design when designing digitalservices. Through this the user can see connections and understand how the application is structured. Toestablish user participation is important at an early stage of the design process, because it contributes togaining insights into deficiency and positive aspects of the prototype, which in turn contributes to meetingthe user needs. One difficulty identified in the empirical data was problems in distinguishing differentfloors in already existing navigation solutions. In order to solve this problem we found it important tocomplement the 2D view in the solution. In the study, this was supplemented by a parallel AR view and atext showing the number of the floor in the 2D view.Keywords: / Denna studie syftade till att skapa förståelse kring vilka designprinciper som utifrån ettanvändbarhetsperspektiv är avgörande när det kommer till utvecklandet av en navigationslösning medAR-funktionalitet. Studien riktade sig mot att öka medvetenhet kring hur tekniken skulle kunna användasför att agera som hjälpmedel i inom-och utomhusnavigation.Med Design Science Research (DSR) som forskningsmetod, skapades förutsättningar för att kunnaidentifiera problematik med Luleå tekniska universitets befintliga karta. I studien tillämpadesdesigntänkande-processens 7 steg, vilket möjliggjorde för att kunna identifiera dessa problem. Genomenkäter och kvalitativa intervjuer i kombination med observationer gick det att skapa en bild överproblematiken kopplat till Luleå tekniska universitets befintliga karta. Utifrån enkäterna skapades även enförståelse över vilka behov som finns utifrån användarnas perspektiv och genom användartester kundeprototypen utvecklas och förbättras.I det andra steget av designtänkande-processen sattes 4 teman upp utifrån studiens empiri, närmarebestämt Navigation, Augmented Reality, Allmän design samt Feedback. Dessa teman följde som en rödtråd genom studien och användes för att strukturera designprinciperna och utforma prototypen. Vår studievisar på vikten av att genomgående genomföra en konsekvent design vid utformandet av digitala tjänster.Genom detta kan användaren se samband och förstå hur applikationen är uppbyggd. Det gick även attkonstatera att användarmedverkan i ett tidigt skede av designprocessen bidrar till att få insikter i bristeroch positiva aspekter av prototypen som i sin tur leder till att kunna uppfylla användarnas behov. Ettproblem som identifierades var svårigheter att urskilja våningsplan i befintliga navigationslösningar. Föratt kunna urskilja våningsplan fann studien det avgörande att hitta ett komplement till 2D-vyn i ennavigationslösning. Inom prototypen kompletterades detta genom en parallell AR-vy samt text i 2D-vyn.

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