3D Contriver Tool for Multi-Touch Modeling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multi-touch 3D modeling applications do not effectively utilize multi-touch capabilities for comprehensive 3D modeling, requiring complex gestures and muscle memory, and are not user-friendly for those without 3D modeling experience, as they separate 3D navigation and creation tools and do not fully leverage multi-touch input.
Innovation Solution
A 3D contriver tool that integrates multi-touch gestures and interactions to combine creation, modification, and navigation operations into a single, context-sensitive tool, allowing users to create and edit 3D models by simply touching a designated space without requiring tool sequencing or mode switching, and enables 'soft' 3D navigation through transient multi-touch inputs outside a virtual modeling box.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate tools and mode switching are used for 3D modeling operations, then comprehensive 3D modeling functionality is achieved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate 3D modeling tools (creation, modification, navigation) into a single integrated tool that responds to different multi-touch gestures. This merging eliminates the need for tool sequencing and mode switching, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive functionality and operational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The single 3D contriver tool is designed to perform multiple functions (creation, editing, navigation) based on different user interactions. This multi-functionality allows the system to maintain comprehensive 3D modeling capabilities while simplifying the interface to a single universal tool.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mouse pointer mimicry is used for multi-touch interactions, then existing 3D modeling operations can be performed, but ease of operation for laymen deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the interaction parameters from mouse-pointer-based precision control to multi-touch gesture-based intuitive control. By mapping natural touch gestures (tapping, swiping, pinching) to 3D modeling operations, the system becomes accessible to laymen without requiring knowledge of traditional 3D modeling tools.
3Adaptability or versatility
If static modality tools are used for creation operations, then specific creation tools can be implemented, but ease of operation and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static creation tools into a dynamic system where the tool's function changes based on the user's gesture and context. The single 3D contriver tool dynamically adapts its behavior (creation vs. modification vs. navigation) based on multi-touch inputs, eliminating the need for users to select and switch between multiple static tools, thereby improving productivity.
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AI summary
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provides the ability to perform a three-dimensional (3D) modeling operation. A modeling tool is activated in a 3D modeling application. A visual representation (having three separate regions) of a grid system tool is displayed on a digital modeling canvas of the 3D modeling application. The grid system controls whether a gesture is captured as a modeling operation or a navigation operation. A starting touch event (of the gesture) is received in/on one of the three separate regions. The region where the starting touch event is received determines the operation that is to be performed/selected. The operation may be a 3D geometry creation operation, a restroking operation, or a navigation operation.