Visual Computing Group , part of ARC

Deep Media Examples

FDI Track on Visualization in Educational and Research Computing - Spring 2011

• Structure and Form - interactive curriculum

  The knowledge base is a multimedia (img, movie, interactive 3D) website, the experimentation tool is a design application coupled to a structural simulator

• 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
• Bio-Med Ed
  • Bio-Anim
• Edu-tainment destination: Gizeh circa 2556 BCE
  • VirtuWorlds' Giza (1999)

Deep Media: ISO Standards-based Software (VRML & X3D)

X3D / VRML Viewing:

• Plug-ins
  • Octaga (win, lin, mac)
  • FreeWRL (opensource lin, mac, win)
  • BitManagement (win)
  • Cortona (win; !vrml only!)
• Stand-Alone
  • InstantReality (win, lin, mac)
  • Xj3D browser & toolkit (opensource java; win, lin, mac)
  • Planet 9 - Raygun mobile and handheld X3D client
  • There are a number of others including: H3D.org (Haptics Opensource w/ Medical Volume Rendering)

X3D / VRML Authoring:

• Vivaty Studio (win)
• WhiteDune (win, lin, mac)
• X3D-Edit (win, lin, mac)
• There are also exporters for Blender, Maya, 3DSMax, VMD, ...
• X3D for Web Authors Book and website with examples, slides, podcast lessons!!!
• X3D Scene Authoring Hints ... see also VRML / X3D Tools @ Web3D.org

• VRML Tutorials
  * http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrmlman/vrmlman.html
  * Vrml Reference Manual