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	Immersive Modeling Mark R. Mine (mine@cs.unc.edu)

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Research Overview	ISAAC: Immersive Simulation Animation And Construction	CHIMP: Chapel Hill Immersive Modeling Program
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Immersive modeling enables a user to design three-dimensional spaces more easily than modeling through-the-window by avoiding the accidental difficulties that result from the limitations of a two-dimensional interface.

Primary Goals:

Explore the implications of working in an immersive environment.
Compare the relative effectiveness of through-the-window and immersive modeling techniques.
Implement an immersive modeling system.

Driving Problem:

Architectural Design.

Advisor:

Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Committee:

Gary Bishop

Henry Fuchs

Anselmo Lastra

Carlo H. Sequin

John Tector (NCSU School of Design)

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ISAAC: Immersive Simulation Animation And Construction

ISAAC (Immersive Simulation Animation And Construction) is a testbed for virtual environment interaction techniques and a precursor to my immersive modeling system.

ISAAC is a scene composition application which can be used for the interactive construction of virtual worlds. Working directly in a virtual environment, objects can be positioned, oriented and scaled using direct and indirect manipulation techniques. Object configurations can be stored in ASCII files which can be used to recreate object configurations at a later date for further manipulation and interactive exploration. ISAAC is not a modeling program, worlds are created by manipulating pre-generated three-dimensional models (which can come from sources such as Computer-Aided Design programs or three-dimensional scanning devices). ISAAC has been designed to overcome some of the limitations of working in a virtual environment and to take advantage of the natural and intuitive forms of interaction available in a virtual world.

Detailed description of ISAAC's interaction techniques (includes images and mpegs)

References:

Mine, Mark (1996). ISAAC: A Meta-CAD System for Virtual Environments. Computer-Aided Design (to appear).

Mine, Mark (1995). ISAAC: A Virtual Environment Tool for the Interactive Construction of Virtual Worlds, UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science Technical Report TR95-020.

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CHIMP: Chapel Hill Immersive Modeling Program

CHIMP (Chapel Hill Immersive Modeling Program) is intended for the preliminary stages of architectural design. It is an immersive system; users work directly within a virtual world. The main goal during the development of the CHIMP system has been to develop interaction techniques that exploit the benefits of working immersed while compensating for its limitations. Interaction techniques used in the CHIMP system include:

Action at a distance