The visualisation of building data in VR-DIS

Author

Coomans, M.K.D. ; Timmermans, H.J.P.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Archit., Building & Planning, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

179

Abstract

The VR-DIS system is a design application for the building and construction industry (VR-DIS stands for Virtual Reality - Design Information System). The user interface is characterised by a mixed representation of the task domain. A pictorial representation of the appearance of the building is combined with a visualisation of the formal description of the design. The latter visualisation is worked out as a highly interactive 3D graph in which relation types are mapped on distinct planar directions and the browsing history is visualised in the third dimension. We discuss the theoretical foundations of the interface as a whole and those of the developed 3D graph

Keywords

building; construction industry; data visualisation; engineering information systems; user interfaces; virtual reality; VR-DIS system; Virtual Reality Design Information System; browsing history visualisation; building data visualisation; construction industry; design application; distinct planar directions; formal description; highly interactive 3D graph; pictorial representation; relation types; task domain; user interface; Buildings; Computer graphics; Costs; Data visualization; Electrical capacitance tomography; Instruments; Process design; Technology planning; User interfaces; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0210-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1999.781555

Filename

781555