Silvano de Gennaro
CERN
AbstractThe VENUS project (see presented paper "Virtual Prototyping at CERN") has developed a 3D web browser, specially oriented to engineering needs, that allows any WWW user to "fly through" the LHC Virtual Prototypes. The browser is called "i3D", it has been produced within a Joint Project between CERN and the Italian institute CRS4, directed by Prof. Carlo Rubbia, and it will shortly be available on the Public Domain.
In its present version i3D is available only on Silicon Graphics stations, but it will soon be ported to all major UNIX platforms supporting OpenGL. It supports navigation through a 2D mouse or a Spaceball, and by the summer '95 it will support VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language), stereo vision and shutter glasses for on-screen 3D imaging. I3D is tightly linked to ordinary WWW browsers. Clicking on a "3D" icon in Mosaic or Netscape will load a 3D world in i3D. Vice-versa, clicking on an hyperlink object during a flight in i3D will trigger the load of a new page in the textual browser.
VENUS intends to provide all LHC Virtual Prototypes models "on the web", in i3D format. This will allow the HEP community to fly through them and obtain all kind of information related to the virtual objects, technical drawings, pictures, schedules at a mouse click.
The talk will focus on the usage of i3D as a graphic tool for LHC design integration and show a demo film.
more info: http://www.crs4.it/~3diadm/i3d-help/i3d-help.html
Submitter's Name: Silvano de Gennaro Submitter's Institution: CERN Address of Institution: rte de Meyrin - 1211 Geneva - CH Submitter's EMAIL address: silvano@vxcern.cern.ch Submitter's Telephone number and/or FAX number: t:+41227674678 f:+41227679080 Authors of the Paper: Silvano de Gennaro / CERN Topic area: Graphics, WWW, Worldwide Collaboration