MITRE Corporation developed this
database of the Burlington, MA, shopping mall to prove the
feasibility of rapidly producing realtime 3D environments that
authentically duplicate real-world locations. The production plan
called for rapid modeling without the use of computerized source
data and blueprints. MITRE produced this database in less than two
weeks without CAD input or even architectural drawings. The
modelers videotaped the mall, used the footage as a modeling
reference or captured single frames of the video for use as
textures. The completed database is approximately 25,000 polygons
and runs on Silicon Graphics Workstations.
MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1420
Krauss-Maffei Wehrtechnik GmbH
This database was designed to visualize the new
Munich Trade Fair and Exhibition Center, scheduled for completion
in 1998. It was used to create the advertising film for the Munich
International Trade Fairs. This realtime 3D media demonstrates the
advantages of the new area to trade show organizers. It allows a
complete in and outdoor walk-through experience, including access
to exhibition halls and the new Congress Center with its
convention halls, conference rooms and lobbies. The database was
designed under supervision of Werner Hartinger and modeled by
Andreas Thonnessen and Peter Schultz with close support of
PHILOSYS GmbH. The complete database was designed from
architectural plans and the imaginations of the architects.
Krauss-Maffei Wehrtechnik GmbH
Postfach 50 03 40.80973 Munchen
Krauss-Maffei-Strabe 2.80997 Munchen
Hangzhou University
The Forbidden City is one of the world's most
magnificent architectural achievements. Home to emperors of the
Ming and Quing dynasties since the fifteenth century, it embodies
the essence of royal grandeur and impeccable craftsmanship
executed in the classic Chinese style. Now a museum, it is the
best preserved architectural treasure in China. A realtime 3D
model of the Forbidden City was constructed by Professor Wang Jian
and his staff, led by Shao ShengLi, for human factors research in
VR walk-throughs and to study the feasibility of further
restorations. The modelers faced the challenge of building a
massive virtual environment that could be navigated seamlessly in
realtime. To achieve this goal, they utilized many of MultiGen's
realtime optimization tools such as instancing, external
references and graphical hierarchy editing. Whenever possible,
they created textures from photographs to recreate the City's
visual beauty and complexity while maintaining a manageable
polygon count. The database runs at 20-30 Hz on a Silicon Graphics
Onyx RE2.
Hangzhou University
Department of Psychology
Human Factors Lab
Hangzhou 310028 China
University of California at Los Angeles
This image of Fremont Street in Las Vegas
represents a joint project between Bill Jepson of UCLA and Tim
Algier of the Fluor Corporation. The simulation is used to
visualize the 90 foot high canopy now under construction and may
also be used by the Fremont Street Association in planning special
events staged along the street. The hotel signs as well as the 2.1
million computer-controlled lights in the canopy are animated in
texture. The next step in the project is an audio simulation to
set the phase relationships of 32 sets of street speakers.
Modelers Wendy Horwitch, Nancy Lelieur and Scott Lelieur used
Nevada State Plane Coordinates to lay out the street grid, and
imported 3D CAD from the canopy's architect for modeling its
geometry. Textures were created from frame grabs of high-8 video.
One challenging part of the project was piecing together textures
of street level views of the hotels, because construction fences
were in place when the video was taken. The database is animated
in the UCLA Urban Simulator, a customer application, and runs on a
Silicon Graphics Onyx Reality Engine.
UCLA Graduate School of
Architecture and Urban Planning
2217A Perloff Hall
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467
INFOBYTE S.p.A..
This image is from Le basiliche di
S. Pietro ("The basilicas of St. Peter"). In this immersive
application you can visit St. Peter's Basilica and the Piazza S.
Pietro, where the church is located in Rome, as they appear today.
When visiting the church you can see in superimposed wireframe the
architectural structure of the ancient (4th century) Constantinain
basilica as it was before being demolished in the 15th century
when construction began on the current basilica. You can then
"time travel" from the present basilica to the Constanian one, The
database contains approximately 70,000 polygons and 48 MB of
texture. The application was developed using Silicon Graphics
PerformerTM on a Reality Engine2TM, and funded by ENEL, the
Italian state electric company.
INFOBYTE S.p.A.
Comunicazione e Sistemi Multimediali
VIA DELLA CAMILLUCCIA 67
00135 ROME, ITALY
