Virtual Environment Workshop: VRML & CCC

University Visualization and Animation Group of the
Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia
August 6-10, 2001

Objectives:

  1. Working knowledge of VRML 1.0 and the CAVE Collaborative Console (CCC)
  2. Itroduction to conversion of AutoCAD and AutoDesk 3D Studio files to CAVE usable format
  3. Advanced features Introduction to VRML 2.0

Monday, August 6, 2001
Introduction and Overview

8:30 - 9:00AM : Workshop outline / Introduce instructors and participants
Introduction to VRML 1.0
9:00 - 9:45AM : VRML 1.0 geometry primitives, text, hyperlinked objects
9:45 - 10:00 AM : Exercise #1, Draw a stick woman
10:00 - 10:15AM                                         BREAK
10:15 - 10:30AM                                         DISCUSSION and REVIEW

Colors, Textures, and Mapping
 

10:30 - 11:00AM: Applying colors, textures and images to geometry primitives
11:00 - 11:15AM: Exercese #2, Continuation of Execise #1 with colors and textures
11:15 - 12:00PM: Show Exercise #2 in: VRML viewer in Netscape, saranav (CAVE-simulator, CAVE)

OTHER VRML REFERENCES

12:00 - 1:00PM                                         LUNCH



Other topics that can be done on Friday, August 10, 2001
Advanced Texturing Issues in VRML 1.0

Please send your comments and questions to Ron Kriz at: rkriz@vt.edu
Last Revision August 5, 2001
http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/ve_workshop/vrml_ccc.html