Explosion Diagrams in Augmented Reality

• Published in: 2009 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference pp. 71 - 78
• Main Authors: Kalkofen, Denis, Tatzgern, Markus, Schmalstieg, Dieter
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2009
• Subjects: and virtual realities; augmented; Augmented reality; E.1 [Data Structures]: Graphs and Networks; Explosions; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems-Artificial; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques-Graphics data structures and data types; mediated and diminished reality; Object overlay and spatial layout techniques; realtime rendering
• ISBN: 9781424439430; 1424439434
• ISSN: 1087-8270
• DOI: 10.1109/VR.2009.4811001

This article introduces explosion diagrams to augmented reality (AR) applications. It presents algorithms to seamlessly integrate an object's explosion diagram into a real world environment, including the AR rendering of relocated objects textured with live video and the restoration of visual information which are hidden behind relocated objects. It demonstrates several types of visualizations for convincing AR explosion diagrams and it discusses visualizations of exploded parts as well as visual links conveying their relocation direction. Furthermore, we show the integration of our rendering and visualization techniques in an AR framework, which is able to automatically compute a diagram's layout and an animation of its corresponding explosion.