Illustrating how mechanical assemblies work

Niloy J. Mitra; Yongliang Yang; Dongming Yan; Wilmot Li; Maneesh Agrawala

doi:10.1145/2398356.2398379

Illustrating how mechanical assemblies work

Niloy J. Mitra, Yongliang Yang, Dongming Yan, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

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How-things-work visualizations use a variety of visual techniques to depict the operation of complex mechanical assemblies. We present an automated approach for generating such visualizations. Starting with a 3D CAD model of an assembly, we first infer the motions of the individual parts and the interactions across the parts based on their geometry and a few user-specified constraints. We then use this information to generate visualizations that incorporate motion arrows, frame sequences, and animation to convey the causal chain of motions and mechanical interactions across parts. We demonstrate our system on a wide variety of assemblies. © 2013 ACM 0001-0782/13/01.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	106
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	56
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2398356.2398379
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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