Welcome to Duke Visualization Technology Grou’s Wiki!

 

Note that in order to download the files (including the solutions to various exercises) posted here, please right-click on them and select Save Target As. Many of the files will not load correctly into VirTools unless they are first saved to disk, along with any components (such as text files containing arrays) that they require.

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Lessons

Introduction

Day 1 (Datatypes, Coordinate Systems, File Types, Virtools Resources, 3D Objects, Building Blocks, 3D Layout Viewer, Frame Rate, Log, Trace, and Reset, Scripts, Building Blocks, and Help)

Day 2 (Building Blocks with Variable Parameters, Sharing Information Between Scripts (Shortcuts), Operations on Parameters (paramOp), Activating Scripts, Script Priority)

Day 3 (Arrays, Dynamic Data Objects, Messages, The Hierarchy Manager, Data From an Array, Data From a Web Server)

Day 4 (Sound, Groups, Collision Detection, Physics)

Day 5 (Virtual Reality)

 

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Rotating a Cube
• Exercise 2: Rotating and Translating a Cube
• Exercise 3: Rotating and Translating a Cube with Link and Time Delay
• Exercise 4a: Timing an Action using Start and Stop Events
• Exercise 4b: Show and Hide
• Exercise 5: Rotating a Cube for a Given Amount of Time
• Exercise 6: Camera looking at a Teapot Moving along a Curve
• Exercise 7: Driving a Teapot and Hierarchy Cameras
• Exercise 8: Time Dependent Versus Frame Dependent
• Exercise 9: Perform Operation
• Exercise 10: Character Animation
• Exercise 11: Use one Generic Script to Rotate Many Objects
• Exercise 12: Dynamic Loading and copy of Objects
• Exercise 13: Activating Scripts