3D Floorplan Rendering Layout for Stacked Multi-Floor Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building design software requires significant time and effort to switch between multiple views of a building's floor plans, as users must manually set up and render different perspectives, leading to inefficiencies in visualization and design processes.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for displaying multiple floor plans by combining orthographic and perspective projections, allowing for user-controlled rotation and alignment of two-dimensional surfaces within a three-dimensional scene, enabling efficient rendering and display of stacked floor plans on a user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple separate views are created to visualize different floors, then the building structure can be viewed comprehensively, but the time and effort required to set up and switch between views increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple floor plan views into a single integrated visualization by projecting 2D floor images onto vertically-aligned surfaces in a 3D scene. This merging allows comprehensive building structure visualization while eliminating the need to manually set up and switch between multiple separate views, thus resolving the contradiction between complete information display and time efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D floor plan displays to a 3D scene where multiple 2D floor images are positioned on vertically-aligned surfaces. This dimensional change enables simultaneous visualization of multiple floors in a single view, allowing users to see the complete building structure without manually switching between multiple 2D views, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining comprehensive information display.
2Manufacturing precision
If traditional rendering methods are used to display multiple floors, then accurate floor plan details are maintained, but the process requires significant manual setup and rendering time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent positions multiple 2D floor images on vertically-aligned surfaces in advance within a 3D scene, preparing the complete multi-floor visualization structure beforehand. This preliminary setup allows the system to render all floors simultaneously in a single operation rather than requiring sequential rendering and manual assembly of multiple views, thus maintaining detail accuracy while significantly improving rendering productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments relate to a method, apparatus, and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: associating a first floorplan image with a first surface in a three-dimensional scene; associating a second floorplan image with a second surface in the three-dimensional scene, wherein the first surface and second surface are vertically-aligned; rendering a stacked floorplan image of the three-dimensional scene, whereby the stacked floorplan image includes image data read from both the first floorplan image and the second floorplan image; and displaying the stacked floorplan image on the user interface.