Project Number
- 11
Title
- An Interactive Building Walkthrough System
Description
- Immersive walkthrough application for architect and client design visualization.
Contact
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Henry Fuchs
Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
- +1.919.962.1700
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- The Walkthrough application enables architects and clients to explore a building design prior to construction.
- Demo 1 - a head mounted display and treadmill respond to user-directives in exploring a design. Demo 2 - an optical tracker allows unencumbered exploration within a room.
- Besides the interface, exploration of performance issues to enable smooth traversal of virtual models that contain a high degree of rendering complexity.
Sight
- VPL Eyephone models 1 and 2, Pixel Planes 5, Macintosh IIci
Sound
- audio cues
Touch
- Polhemus Navigational Sciences 3Space Magnetic Tracker, treadmill
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 301 - visualization
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Demo included a full radiosity solution for the building interior.
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