Patent ID: 7420556

Claim:
An information processing method comprising: a determining step of determining, in response to a value input via an input device, a reference position, reference direction, and reference distance in a virtual three-dimensional space as geometric criteria; a detection step of detecting a component, which has an intersection with a line that extends from the reference position in the reference direction, and has a length of the reference distance, of a plurality of components which form a three-dimensional geometric model of which a display mode is set to an opaque mode; a changing step of changing a display mode of the component, detected in said detection step, of the plurality of components to be one of a translucent mode and a wireframe mode; a three-dimensional model displaying step of displaying the three-dimensional geometric model on the basis of the display mode set for each of the plurality of components and displaying the rendered three-dimensional geometric model; and a selected state setting step of setting one component, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from among the components rendered in the opaque mode, in a selected state, wherein the reference distance dynamically varies as the value input via the input device changes.