Vizlab
Vizlab is a Visualisation Laboratory - joint facility of the Faculties of Engineering and Science. Initial funding for the laboratory was provided by the Monash University Research Fund in 2002 (with contributions by the two faculties).
The Vizlab equipment, currently located in Room 106A Building 31 (Clayton, Enginneering Precinct), comprises of:
- 2 DLP projectors - Sim Grand Cinema 250 - with polarising filters to provide passive stereo
- Large screen - 3.5m x 2. 625 m silver screen
- Polarised viewing glasses (50 pairs)
- Computer - Dual 1.8 GHz P4 Xeon Computer/1.0 Gbyte memory/WildCat graphics card/DVD writer, Gigabit ethernet, running Linux and Windoze XP
- Control boxes
- GrangeNet Connection (sort of)
- Software
- supplied by the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing :
- stereo2: static 3D geometry viewer
- glslides: stereo pair viewer.
- buildmovie/playmovie: for constructing and playing 3D movie sequences from individual frames
- pointanim: used for viewing time-varying point datasets
- surfanim: used for viewing time-varying surfaces
- glgraph: produces surface graphs
- sample C/C++ application source code to illustrate how to set up the OpenGL camera correctly for stereoscopic projection
- Various tools collected from the web or written in-house
- pointcloud viewer reads in points in the form x,y,z,r,g,b (one point per line in the file)
- stereo pair viewer based on Swinburne's code
- Example code see here and in the ~vrdemo/source directory on the vislab computer.
Author D. Suter