Visual Computing Group , part of ARC

Deep Media Examples

FDI Track on Visualization and Research Computing - Spring 2008

• 3D graphs
  • Fishy data
  • interactive fxn plotting
• Chemical Markup Language (CML) translations
• Math
  • V. Bulatov's geometry
• Immunological Simulation
  • PathSim
• Cell Biology
  • Annotation examples
• Structural Energetics
  • DARPA/ICAM simulation
• Proteins
  • Sys X (pdb) myoglobin
• DNA Blast sequences
  • ParaMEDIC
• Cityscapes & Urban Planning
  • Streetcrosser
  • Wayfinder
• Art
  • Web3D Art
• Architecture
  • INT3D
• Objects
  • Military models
• VRML field guide
  • http://www.toucan.co.jp/indexE.html

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Deep Media Standards-based Software

See also VRML / X3D Tools @ Web3D.org

Authoring:

• Flux Studio (win)
• WhiteDune (win, lin, mac)
• X3D-Edit (win, lin, mac)
• There are also exporters for Blender, Maya, 3DSMax, VMD, ...

Viewing:

• Cortona (win; vrml only)
• InstantReality (win, lin, mac)
• Xj3D browser & toolkit (opensource java; win, lin, mac)
• FreeWRL (opensource lin, mac)
• Octaga (win, lin, mac)

Deep Media Papers / Links

• Web3D Consortium

• Preprint chapter 'Publishing Paradigms with X3D': http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/3D/Book_chap_07_prep.pdf
  Visualizing information using SVG and X3D : XML-based technologies for the XML-based Web

• ACM / Eurographics 12th annual Symposium on Web3D- a publication architecture for simulation data:
  * http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/web3d2007/acm_irve_07_acc_npolys.pdf
  * http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/web3d2007/npolys_color_plate.pdf

• VRML Tutorials
  * http://web3d.vapourtech.com/workshop/
  * http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrmlman/vrmlman.html
  * http://www.virtualrealms.com.au/vrml/tute01/tutorial.htm
• Vrml Reference Manual