Automatic fly-through camera animations for 3D architectural repositories

Virtual fly-through animations through computer generated models are a strong tool to convey properties and the appearance of these models. In, e.g., architectural models the big advantage of such a fly-through animation is that it is possible to convey the structure of the model easily. However, the path generation is not always trivial, to get a good looking animation. The proposed approach in this paper can handle arbitrary 3D models and then extract a meaningful and good looking camera path. To visualize the path HTML/X3DOM is used and therefore it is possible to view the final result in a browser with X3DOM support.