The layout of large scenes can be a time consuming and tedious task. In most current systems, the user must position each of the objects by hand, one at a time. This paper presents a constraint based automatic placement system, which allows the user to quickly and easily lay out complex scenes.
The system uses a combination of automatically generated placement constraints, pseudo physics, and a semantic database to guide the automatic placement of objects. Existing scenes can quickly be rearranged simply by reweighting the placement preferences. We show that the system enables a user to lay out a complex scene of 300 objects in less than 10 minutes.
@inproceedings{Xu-gi02,
author = "Ken Xu and A. James Stewart and Eugene Fiume",
title = "Constraint-based Automatic Placement for Scene Composition",
booktitle = "Graphics Interface",
year = "2002",
month = "May",
pages = "25--34"
}