Title :
How to turn the page [digital libraries]
Author :
Chu, Yi-Chun ; Witten, Ian H. ; Lobb, Richard ; Bainbridge, David
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waikato Univ., Hamilton, New Zealand
Abstract :
Can digital libraries provide a reading experience that more closely resembles a real book than a scrolled or paginated electronic display? We describe a prototype page turning system that realistically animates full three-dimensional page-turns. The dynamic behavior is generated by a mass-spring model defined on a rectangular grid of particles. The prototype takes a PDF or e-book file, renders it into a sequence of PNG images representing individual pages, and animates the page-turns under user control. The simulation behaves fairly naturally, although more computer graphics work is required to perfect it.
Keywords :
computer animation; digital libraries; electronic publishing; image sequences; rendering (computer graphics); touch sensitive screens; PDF file; PNG image sequence; computer graphics; digital library; e-book file; mass-spring model; paginated electronic display; prototype page turning system; realistic animation; rectangular particle grid; rendering; three-dimensional page-turn; user control;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1939-3
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204862
