{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,10]],"date-time":"2026-06-10T16:32:19Z","timestamp":1781109139238,"version":"3.54.1"},"reference-count":24,"publisher":"IGI Global Scientific Publishing","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]},"abstract":"<p>Object occlusion is a major handicap for efficient interaction with 3D virtual environments. The well-known World in Miniature (WIM) metaphor partially solves this problem by providing an additional dynamic viewpoint through a hand-held miniature copy of the scene. However, letting the miniature show a replica of the whole scene makes the WIM metaphor suitable for only relatively simple scenes due to occlusion and level of scale issues. In this paper, the authors propose several algorithms to extend the idea behind the WIM to arbitrarily complex scenes. The main idea is to automatically decompose indoor scenes into a collection of cells that define potential extents of the miniature replica. This cell decomposition works well for general indoor scenes and allows for simple and efficient algorithms for preserving the visibility of potential targets inside the cell. The authors also discuss how to support interaction at multiple levels of scale by allowing the user to select the WIM size according to the accuracy required for accomplishing the task.<\/p>","DOI":"10.4018\/jcicg.2010070101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,2,15]],"date-time":"2011-02-15T15:16:42Z","timestamp":1297783002000},"page":"1-14","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["World-in-Miniature Interaction for Complex Virtual Environments"],"prefix":"10.4018","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Ram\u00f3n","family":"Trueba","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"MOVING Group, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Andujar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MOVING Group, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ferran","family":"Argelaguet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MOVING Group, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2432","reference":[{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-0","unstructured":"Airey, J. (1990). Increasing update rates in the building walkthrough system with automatic model-space subdivision and potentially visible set calculations. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."},{"issue":"6","key":"jcicg.2010070101-1","first-page":"88","article-title":"Topology simplification through discrete models.","volume":"20","author":"C.And\u00fajar","year":"2002","journal-title":"ACM Transactions on Graphics"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-8659.2004.00781.x"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1409060.1409107"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chittaro, L., Gatla, V. K., & Venkataraman, S. (2005). The interactive 3d breakaway map: A navigation and examination aid for mult-ifloor 3d worlds. In Proceedings of CW \u201805: 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds (pp. 59-66). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society.","DOI":"10.1109\/CW.2005.88"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-5","unstructured":"Coffin, C., & Hollerer, T. (2006). Interactive perspective cut-away views for general 3d scenes. In Proceedings of3DUI \u201806: IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (pp. 25-28)."},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TVCG.2003.1207447"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-7","first-page":"523","article-title":"Interactive cutaway illustrations. In","volume":"2003","author":"J.Diepstraten","year":"2003","journal-title":"Proceedings of Eurographics"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-8","unstructured":"Dong, Z., Chen, W., Bao, H., Zhang, H., & Peng, Q. (2004). Real-time voxelization for complex polygonal models. In Proceedings of PG \u201804: 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (pp. 43-50)."},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Eisemann, E., & D\u00e9coret, X. (2006). Fast Scene Voxelization and Applications. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (pp. 70-78).","DOI":"10.1145\/1111411.1111424"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-10","first-page":"532","article-title":"Employing dynamic transparency for 3d occlusion management: Design issues and evaluation. In","volume":"2007","author":"N.Elmqvist","year":"2007","journal-title":"Proceedings of INTERACT"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TVCG.2008.59"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-12","author":"C.Everitt","year":"2001","journal-title":"Introduction to interactive order-independent transparency"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF01897116"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1073204.1073306"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Haumont, D., Debeir, O., & Sillion, F. (2003). Volumetric cell-and-portal generation. In Proceedings of the Computer Graphics Forum (pp. 3-22)","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-8659.00677"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hong, L., Muraki, S., Kaufman, A., Bartz, D., & He, T. (1997). Virtual voyage: interactive navigation in the human colon. In SIGGRAPH \u201897: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (pp. 27-34).","DOI":"10.1145\/258734.258750"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-17","first-page":"37","article-title":"Using distance fields for object representation and rendering. In","volume":"2001","author":"M.Jones","year":"2001","journal-title":"Proceedings of Eurographics"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-18","unstructured":"Kirsch, F., & D\u00f6llner, J. (2005). Opencsg: a library for image-based csg rendering. In Proceedings USENIX 05 (p. 49)."},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"LaViola, J. J., Jr., Feliz, D. A., Keefe, D. F., & Zeleznik, R. C. (2001). Hands-free multi-scale navigation in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics\u201901 (pp. 9-15).","DOI":"10.1145\/364338.364339"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-20","first-page":"231","article-title":"Layered depth images. In","volume":"98","author":"J.Shade","year":"1998","journal-title":"Proceedings of SIGGRAPH"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Stoakley, R., Conway, M. J., & Pausch, Y. (1995). Virtual reality on a wim: interactive worlds in miniature. In Proceedings of SIGCHI\u201995: SIG on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 265-272).","DOI":"10.1145\/223904.223938"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/127719.122725"},{"key":"jcicg.2010070101-23","first-page":"11","author":"C. A.Wingrave","year":"2006","journal-title":"Overcoming world in miniature limitations by a scaled and scrolling wim. In 3D"}],"container-title":["International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics"],"original-title":[],"language":"ng","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/viewtitle.aspx?TitleId=47001","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,1]],"date-time":"2022-06-01T13:25:16Z","timestamp":1654089916000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/services.igi-global.com\/resolvedoi\/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018\/jcicg.2010070101"}},"subtitle":[""],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]},"references-count":24,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2010,7]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4018\/jcicg.2010070101","relation":{},"ISSN":["1947-3117","1947-3125"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1947-3117","type":"print"},{"value":"1947-3125","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,1]]}}}