Surface Animation During Dynamic Floor Plan Generation

A method, comprising:

• receiving a user input associated with a surface of a structure presented on a display, the surface defining a portion of a floor plan;
• generating, in response to the user input, a two-dimensional representation of the floor plan comprising a line segment representing the surface of the structure, the line segment defining a geometric plane in a third dimension;
• determining at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment representing the surface on the two-dimensional representation of the floor plan;
• and
• gradually highlighting the surface shown on the display where the geometric plane that the line segment defines intersects with the at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment to produce a highlight, the highlight presented as a graphical animation that extends from a center point of the user input to an ending point.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising:

• instructions for receiving a user input associated with a surface of a structure presented on a display, the surface defining a portion of a floor plan;
• instructions for generating, in response to the user input, a two-dimensional representation of the floor plan comprising a line segment representing the surface of the structure, the line segment defining a geometric plane in a third dimension;
• instructions for determining at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment representing the surface on the two-dimensional representation of the floor plan;
• and
• instructions for gradually highlighting the surface shown on the display where the geometric plane that the line segment defines intersects with the at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment, producing a highlight, the highlight presented as a graphical animation that extends from a center point of the user input to an ending point.