Smooth, Efficient, and Interruptible Zooming and Panning

TL;DR

This paper presents a new dynamical systems-based method for smooth, efficient, and interruptible zooming and panning in visual interfaces, improving endpoint smoothness and interruption handling compared to prior techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dynamical systems approach in hyperbolic space for zooming and panning, with new visualization tools called world/screen diagrams.

Findings

Animations are smooth at endpoints and when interrupted.

The technique outperforms previous methods in smoothness and efficiency.

World/screen diagrams effectively visualize zooming and panning animations.

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel technique for smooth and efficient zooming and panning based on dynamical systems in hyperbolic space. Unlike the technique of van Wijk and Nuij, the animations produced by our technique are smooth at the endpoints and when interrupted by a change of target. To analyze the results of our technique, we introduce world/screen diagrams, a novel technique for visualizing zooming and panning animations.