3D Selection Vault

Hierarchical Rectangle Selection

Rectangle (marquee) selection on screen that also takes the gravitational hierarchy into account, so supported objects are grouped with their supports.

How it works

The user drags a rectangle on the screen as in conventional rectangle selection, and the selection is then refined using the scene's contact graph so that objects resting on selected objects come along, avoiding the need to check the selection from several viewpoints.

Papers

• Ji-Young Oh, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Darius Dadgari (2006). Group Selection Techniques for Efficient 3D Modeling. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), pp. 95–102 doi:10.1109/VR.2006.66