Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools

Conference · Fri Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:1602788

Bethel, E Wes ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

We describe a collection of tools designed to be used in a Modular Visualization Environment (MVE) that facilitate the use of a Virtual Reality (VR) input device. VR input devices provide the means to easily and intuitively specify information which is three- or six-dimensional. Many scientific visualization tasks require this type of information. Our goal is to reduce the user interface complexity by employing a six-dimensional input device to specify six-dimensional data in scientific visualization. In the following sections, we describe relevant previous work and the functions supported by tools: device input, camera positioning, object transformations and developer’s tools.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21), Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) (SC21.1 )
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1602788
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English