Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools
E. Wes Bethel · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 1995
We describe a collection of tools designed to be used in a Modular Visualization Environment (MVE) that facilitate the use of a Virtual Reality (VR) input device.VR input devices provide the means to easily and intuitively specify information which is three-or six-dimensional.Many scientific visualization tasks require this type of information.Our goal is to reduce the user interface complexity by employing a six-dimensional input device to specify six-dimensional data in scientific visualization.In the following sections, we describe relevant previous work and the functions supported by tools: device input, camera positioning, object transformations and developer's tools.