Virtual Environments and the CAVE in

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Ronald D. Kriz, Ali Nayfeh, Pavlos Vlachos,

Ali Etebari, and Sanjiv Parikh

University Visualization and Animation Group Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

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October 1, 2001, 7:30pm

Prof. Ali Nayfeh, ESMPrincipal Invetigatior

Dr. Lance Arsenault, ESM/CSDesigned and constructed6-D.O.F. motion platform and DIVERSE (DTK) I/O API

Eric Tester,UGA,CS

ONR: MURI/DURIP Crane-Ship Simulation in the CAVE

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ONR-NavCIITI Task2.1 C & C Visualization

CONnical acoustic arRAY CONRAY model

Desktop

CAVE

I-Desk

Das NevesR. Kriz

NIST Smokeview 2.0 using DIVERSE DGL API

NIST Smokeview running in DGL CAVE simulator

( DGL: OpenGL interface to DIVERSE )

6-DOF with force haptic feedback

along x-y-z

ASPIRES: Combining visualization with haptic

feedback to enhance molecular docking

Haptic device on the right is linked to the molecule (boundary highlighted) abovewhere the researcher/student can feel the force / atomic potentials associated withdocking the molecule onto the large protein structure.

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Combining Visualization with Haptic Feedback to Enhance Molecular Docking

D. Bevan, BiochemistyL. Watson, Computer SciR. Kriz & S. Parikh, ESM

(http://www.sv.vt.edu/future/cave/resprj/idock/idock.html)

Beowulf Cluster“Future Simulations”

D. Bevan L. Watson R. Kriz S. Parikh

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Combined Research Curriculum Development

http://www.jwave.vt.edu/crcd

Network Program Interface Builder (NPIB) is a rapid application deve-lopment tool that researchers coulduse to create, maintain, and archivenumerous parametric studies basedon their legacy computer simulations.

R. Batra, ESMD. Farkas, MSE

R. Kriz, ESM

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Example: 3D Wave Surface

Working “Real-Time” Archive

Submit

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Results.html

Results Viewed at Desktop

Results ViewedIn the CAVE (see next slide)

email notifies user simulation completed

Fourth order tensor glyph viewed in the CAVE

Used in ESM5344 “Wave Propagation in Solids” tostudy anisotropies associated with crystal class symmetries. These geometries are also usedto study reflected and refracted interface waves.

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Visualization and Analysis of ComplexFlows in a Cardiovascular System

A. Etebari, P. Vlachos, R. KrizEngineering Science and Mechanics

Desk-top, I-Desk, CAVE

stress tensor glyph

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