A Virtual Reality Building Block Composer for Architecture

Abstract

Design is a complex and time consuming process.  One way to simplify the design process is to use pre-build blocks for commonly known parts instead of creating them again with CAD.  To give the designer an immediate 3D view of the design, designing in virtual reality is a good choice. This paper presents a virtual reality interface tool which allows a user to assemble an architecture structure from a library of pre-built blocks. The library is a distributed client-server database