Intuitive tools for camera manipulation
Nisha Sudarsanam · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 2004
We present an image-space camera manipulation widget that sup-ports visualization of the relationship of the camera with respect tothe scene. The form of the widget presents the user with naturalaffordances for camera manipulation. Visual aids such as ghostingof the scene and preview animations are used to acquaint noviceusers with the functions of different parts of the widget. Mousegestures are used to transition between different perspective viewsof the scene in an intuitive way. Finally, we provide a novel methodfor visualizing camera bookmarks.