Project Number
- 169
Title
- Advanced Technologies for Virtual Environments
Description
- Virtual environment and image-based rendering techniques.
Contact
- Mary Whitton
Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
- whitton@cs.unc.edu
WWW
- http://www.cs.unc.edu/~walk, http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- Three projects are presented:
- - Walkthrough - the user walks through a very large, complex model that is visualized with a variety of model-management techniques (such as visibility culling, dynamic tessellation, static and dynamic model simplification, textured impostors) to enable rendering at interactive rates
- - nanoManipulator - the nanoWorkbench adds a PHANToM force-feedback device to a rear-projected display to allow the user to touch the objects that are displayed - the nanoManipulator system is connected to an atomic-force microscope to allow participants to move, bend, and stack "bucky tubes" on a sub-micron playing field
- - Image-based Rendering - the technique demonstrated uses one or more reference images as the basic primitive for rendering - in this experience, the user walks through a real-world scene rendered from a set of captured reference images
Sight
- graphics workstations and servers
Sound
Touch
- PHANToM force-feedback device
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Secondary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Remarks
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