INTERACTIVE FURNITURE LAYOUT USING INTERIOR DESIGN GUIDELINES

Author

Paul Merrell, Eric Schkufza, Zeyang Li, Vladlen Koltun---Stanford University Maneesh Agrawala---University of California, Berkeley

outline

Introduction Overview Functional criteria --clearance,circulation,pairwise relationship,conversation Visual criteria---balance,alignment, emphasis Generating suggestions

Introduction(1/2)

Introduction(2/2)

Contributions -- identify a set of design guidelines -- develop a system for creating

furniture arrangement

Overview

Creat a room Select furnitues Generate suggestions

Overview

Use Markov chain carlo sampler to suggestion

optimized layouts

Definition

Functional criteria---How well the layout support human

activities Visual criteria--- concern the perception of the layout as

a visual composition

Clearance

A = {(1, 0), (0, 1), (0, −1)} B = {(0, 0), (1, 1), (1, −1)} A + B = {(1, 0), (2, 1), (2, −1), (0, 1) (1, 2), (1, 0), (0, −1), (1, 0), (1, −2)}

Clearance

Many furniture items need open space around them

Circulation

Circulation--An effective furniture layout must

support circulation through the room and access to all of the

furniture.

Circulation

Pairwise relationships

Human physiology affects how objects should be positioned with respect to each other.

Pairwise relationships

Pairwise relationships

Conversation

the seats within a conversation area should be roughly four to eight feet apart

Conversation

Balance

The principle is to place the mean of the distribution of visualweight at the center of the composition. The visual weight of an element is its perceptual saliency.

A common assumption is that larger objects carry more visual weight.

Balance

Alignment

In furniture arrangement, alignment primarily concerns the orientation of the furniture items relative to each other and to the walls of the room.

Alignment

Emphasis

It is generally desirable to have a dominant focal

point in the interior, so that the eye can rest without suffering competing demands for visual attention.

Emphasis

Generating suggestions

Density function and sampling

i ⋲ ci; pd; pa; cd; ca; vb; fa;wa; sy; efg and wi arethe mixture weights.

Generating suggestions

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