3D Visualization and Exploration of Relationships and Constraints at the Example of Sudoku Games

Scientific Director: Gudrun Klinker

Contact Person(s): Gudrun Klinker

Start:	1 October 2007
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Keywords

Keywords: 3D Information Presentation, 3D Interaction, Sudoku

Abstract

In recent years, many systems for visualizing and exploring massive amounts of data have emerged. A topic that has not yet been investigated much, concerns the analysis of constraints that different objects impose on one another, regarding co-existence. We present concepts toward visualizing mutual constraints between objects in a three-dimensional virtual and ARbased setting. We use 3x3 Sudoku games as suitable examples for investigating the underlying, more general concepts of helping users visualize and explore the constraints between different settings in rows, columns and blocks of matrix-like arrangements. Constraints are shown as repulsive and magnetic forces making objects keep their distance or seek proximity.

Pictures

Figure 2: Setup for AR-based presentation

Figure 3: Presentation of all not-yet-set digits in overview panes for all rows and columns

Videos

Publications

2009

F. Echtler, S. Nestler, A. Dippon, G. Klinker
Supporting Casual Interactions between Board Games on Public Tabletop Displays and Mobile Devices
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Public and Private Displays, Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 609-617. (bib)

2007

G. Klinker, F. Echtler
3D Visualization and Exploration of Relationships and Constraints at the Example of Sudoku Games
Technical Report TUM-I0722, Nov. 1, 2007, pp. 1-8. (bib)

Team

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Location

Technische Universität München
Institut für Informatik / I16
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching bei München

Tel.: +49 89 289-17058
Fax: +49 89 289-17059

Please contact Gudrun Klinker for available student projects within this research project.

Sudoku Download: Zipped directory with executable sudoku file (for Windows)