3D Interactive Floor Plan with Dynamic Lighting and Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for representing unbuilt real estate, such as residential and commercial properties, lack realistic depictions of interior lighting and exterior views, making it difficult to visualize the final product, especially for high-rise buildings in urban or recreational areas where views are a selling point.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable medium with instructions to generate a three-dimensional interactive floor plan, incorporating building location data, external building data, and lighting simulations to accurately depict views from windows, including adjacent structures, heavenly bodies, and weather conditions, allowing users to experience the space before construction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If traditional computer graphics and blueprints are used to represent unbuilt properties, then the basic layout and square footage can be shown, but realistic interior lighting and exterior views cannot be depicted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional blueprints and static computer graphics to three-dimensional virtual reality environments. This dimensional transformation enables realistic depiction of both interior lighting conditions and exterior views simultaneously, allowing potential buyers to experience spatial relationships and lighting effects that cannot be conveyed in 2D representations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of the unbuilt property including accurate replicas of adjacent buildings, terrain features, and environmental elements. These virtual copies are integrated into the VR environment to simulate realistic exterior views from different rooms and angles, providing information about the surrounding context that traditional blueprints cannot convey.
2Adaptability or versatility
If static representations are used for unbuilt properties, then simplicity is maintained, but the ability to show views varying with time and season is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual reality system incorporates dynamic elements that allow views and lighting conditions to change based on time of day, season, and weather conditions. Users can navigate through different temporal contexts to see how the property appears at various times, providing adaptable information about environmental factors that affect the property experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-calculates and stores environmental data including sun positions, seasonal variations, and weather patterns for the property location. This preliminary preparation enables the VR environment to quickly render accurate lighting and view conditions without requiring complex real-time calculations during user interaction, balancing versatility with computational efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for generating a three-dimensional floor plan of a structure (e.g., a building, vehicle, or other structure) that includes a plurality of walls and at least one window. The three-dimensional floor plan includes internal building data such as height and orientation information for one or more rooms of the structure. The internal building data may include lighting elements and a view from the at least one window. The floor plan also includes external building data such as size, shape, location, and orientation of a second structure adjacent the first structure. The external building data may include points of interest and heavenly bodies. The system may allow a user to view the interior of a particular room and the exterior view from the particular room while manipulating the lighting conditions inside and/or outside of the particular room.