Hi im developing a chess game and have a simple camera that orbits the board and zooms in and out working, but im looking to add on the ability for the camera to be given a point in 3D space and smoothly move towards the new point in an orbiting style. Im using Xith3D which is a scenegraph API for Java and i''m new to graphics programming in general. From the research i''ve done so far i presume i need a non-linear interpolater to implement what i need, but ive got very little experience using interpolaters. I''d be greatly appriciative if anyonecould give me pointers to any good tutorials or relevant information or ideas. Thanks

Look for quaternions

You might want to look into Cosine and/or Cubic interpolation:

Interpolation Methods
Interpolation Methods 2