3D Swimming Pool Visualization Using Property Image Overlays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face challenges in visualizing how a swimming pool would look on their property, as existing methods require significant imagination and lack interactive tools to consider various aesthetic and spatial factors.
Innovation Solution
A pool visualization application that allows users to select visual characteristics such as shape, liner, and background setting, generating a 3D rendering of a virtual swimming pool, enabling realistic visualization and facilitating decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If product catalogues are used to describe pool products, then product information is provided to customers, but customers still require significant imagination to visualize the pool on their property
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the swimming pool by capturing an image of the customer's property and overlaying a digitally rendered pool onto the captured image. This allows customers to visualize the actual pool on their property rather than relying on imagination or static catalogues.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a captured image of the property as an intermediary between the customer's real property and the virtual pool rendering. The captured image serves as the base layer upon which the pool visualization is overlaid, creating a realistic representation.
2Loss of information
If static images or descriptions are provided, then product details are communicated, but interactive visualization and spatial understanding are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional static catalogues to a composite image that combines the real property photograph with a superimposed virtual pool rendering. This creates a more immersive, realistic visualization that better represents the spatial relationship.
3Measurement precision
If customers rely on imagination to visualize the pool, then no additional tools are needed, but accurate spatial and aesthetic assessment is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a photorealistic copy of the property environment and superimposes the virtual pool onto it, allowing customers to assess the pool's appearance and spatial fit accurately without relying on imagination.
Data Source
AI summary
Swimming pools can be visualized according to some aspects described herein. In one example, a system can receive a user selection of a particular liner from among a plurality of liner options for a virtual swimming pool. The system can generate a virtual swimming pool having the particular liner. The virtual swimming pool can be a three-dimensional (3D) rendering of a swimming pool with the particular liner. The system can then output the virtual swimming pool for display on a display device.