Illustrating how mechanical assemblies work

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Mitra, Niloy J ^a,b   Yang, Yong Liang ^a   Yan, Dong Ming ^a,c   Li, Wilmot ^d   Agrawala, Maneesh ^e  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal chaining; Mechanical assembly; Motion depiction; Shape analysis; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; CAD MODELS; CAUSAL CHAINING; CAUSAL CHAINS; FRAME SEQUENCES; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MOTION DEPICTION; SHAPE ANALYSIS; USER-SPECIFIED CONSTRAINTS; VISUAL TECHNIQUES;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77956371638     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1778765.1778795     Document Type: Article

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