ESM4714
Scientific Visual Data Analysis and Multimedia

Lecture #6:
Glyphs Represent Physical Properties

• Glyph Examples
• Glyph Representation using PV-Wave Exercise#10
• Basic Polygon Structures: Hill Appendix-B, Platonic Solids
• Intro to DPF DIVERSE, VE Basics, and creating VRML1/Open-Inventor 3D Scenegraphs for nonprogrammers
• Building VRML1/Open-Inventor Ver1.0 files that load into the CAVE: File Format
• Building VRML2/97 files that load into the CAVE: Under Construction
  • The Annotated VRML2/97 Reference Manual
  • web3d.org web-site document on "The Virtual Reality Modeling Language"
  • VRML2 Tutorial
• Sij Second Order Tensor Glphs at VRML1/VRML2 files Viewable in the CAVE or web browser.
  Example of envisioning the second-order stress tensor, Sij, using Web-Browser or CAVE
• Cijkl Fourth Order Tensor Glyph as VRML1/VRML2 files Viewable in the CAVE or web browser.
  Example of envisioning the fourth-order stiffness tensor, Cijkl, using Web-Browser or CAVE,
  NOTE: Depending on system-OS and browser plugins either VRML1 or VRML2 file format can
  can be viewed using a web browser. The Open Inventor Ver1.0 file format is used for the CAVE.
• VRML2/97 files can be viewed in the CAVE using the OpenGL interface to DIVERSE (DGL).
  Currently DGL has been documented for API developers. Future web site will provide entry level,
  users instructions on how to load VRML2/97 file format into the CAVE at VT using DGL.
• Homework: Glyph Representation of Eigenvalue Problems

Down load lecture as a QuickTime sequence of images (0.5Mb): Lecture#6