FDI Track M:
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Visualization and Virtual Environments for Research and Education

Objectives:

1. Working knowledge of VRML 1.0: creating simple scenegraphs
2. Diversifly VRML 1.0 files in Virtual Environments
3. Share VRML scenegraphs with the CAVE Collaborative Console (CCC)
4. Advanced features Introduction to VRML 2.0
5. Itroduction to conversion of AutoCAD and AutoDesk 3D Studio files to CAVE usable format

Introduction to VRML 1.0

10:30 - 11:00 AM :

VRML 1.0 geometry primitives, text, hyperlinked objects

11:00 - 11:30 AM :

Exercise #1, Draw a stick woman

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Colors, Textures, and Mapping

11:30 - 12:00 noon:

Applying colors, textures and images to geometry primitives
Exercese #2, Continuation of Execise #1 with colors and textures

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                                         LUNCH

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Viewing VRML Scenegraphs

1:15 - 1:30 PM:

Show Exercise #2: Susan Regan's Stick Woman, Director MVHS
         - VRML viewer Web-browser plugin
         - Diversifly-CAVEsim on a Dell Laptop running Linux

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Modeling Polygonal Structures in VRML 1.0

1:00 - 1:30 PM :

Understanding Polygonal Structures:
"Computer Graphics", Francis S. Hill Jr.

Advanced Texturing Issues in VRML 1.0

1:30 - 2:00 PM :

Veiwing translucent-color mapping with VRML 1.0 scenegraphs at the Desktop / CAVE:
Exercises #3: correct vs. incorrect examples of VRML(*.wrl) / Inventor(*.iv)

         EXAMPLE: Combined Research and Curriculum Development (CRCD)
         Elastic Anisotropy, C_ijkl - 3D Wave Surfaces
                  Create VRML / Inventor files by submitting batch to a networked-HPC.
                  HPC Results Archived in a "working" Web directory.

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More VRML 1.0 Examples:
       NCSA VRML tutorial

References on VRML 2.0:
       The Future: Bringing 3D to the Web
       Intro to VRML97, Object Oriented issues, and animations:
More VRML 2.0 Examples:
       Virginia Tech: s.wrl, s2.wrl, s3.wrl, s4.wrl, s5.wrl, s6.wrl, s7.wrl. s8.wrl, s9.wrl


Links to VRML Web sites:
       VRML Web 3D Consortium
       VRweb: Home Page
       OpenVRML
       Learning VRML Resources
       Floppy's VRML Pad
       Mac-VRML: Mac Web3D

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Putting VRML scenegraphs in a shared collaborative workspace

2:00 - 2:45PM:

Intro to VRML in the CAVE Collaborative Console (CCC), lecture followed by CAVE demo.

Converting VRML and other popular scenegraphs to VE/CAVE viewable format

3:00 - 5:00PM: Intro to common file type conversions.  The most common
CAVE usable formats are inventor files (*.iv), performer binary files (*.pfb),
and Multigen flight files (*.flt).  Below are links that outline in detail how to
convert AutoCAD file formats (*.dxf/*.dwg) and AutoDesk 3D-Studio file
format (*.3ds) to CAVE usable formats: Class Projects from ESM4714

           Converting AutoCAD Release 12 (*.dxf) to Performer binary (*.pfb)
           Converting AutoCAVE 2002 (*.dwg) to OpenFlight (*.flt)
           Converting 3D Studio (*.3ds) to OpenFlight (*.flt)
           Adding Behaviors to VRML Models Ported to Immersive Environments