* On-line Real-time Virtual Reality

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Virtual Buildings/Urban Areas

Getty Museum, Los Angeles	St. Sophia Church, Los Angeles	Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills
UCLA - Central Campus	UCLA - Royce Hall	UCLA - North Campus
Abbot Kinney, Venice CA

• Getty Museum.wrl (size 300 K) images (80K)
• St. Sophia Church.wrl (size 400 K) images (80K)
• UCLA Campus (size 148 K) images (80K)
• Abbot Kinney Road in Venice.wrl, California (size 800 K) images (80K)
• Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills CA.wrl (size 70 K) images (80K)

 

Virtual Geographical Databases

ABOUT...images (140K)

USA	Los Angeles
UCLA	Anderson School
1st Floor	Room B123
Closet No.35

• USA (size 60 K) -> LA (50K) -> UCLA (80K) -> Anderson School (100K)
• Floor 1 (80K) -> Room B123 (20K) -> Closet 35 (3K)

 

Historical Sites/Change

• Greek Temple in Kuwait
• Beverly Hills in the 60s

 

Virtual Services

Video Store

Cinema theater

 

• ABOUT...text/images (PDF 140K)
• Video Store (300 K) (thesis abstract)
• Cinema Theater (100 K) (thesis project)
• Art Gallery (100 K) (thesis project)
• Multi-user Shopping Mall (thesis project)
• Hotel/resort Reservation (thesis project)

 

Art/Painting

ABOUT...(text/images) (40K)

• Pearblossom Highway (80 K) by David Hockney
• Nostalgia of the Infinity (81 K) by Giorgio DeChirico
• A Cubist... Cube (35K)

 

Imagination

• Entrance (by Craig Brown)

 

Visualization

Smog data

 

• Los Angeles Smog Data (100 K) (thesis project by David Campbell)
• NASDAQ Composite (thesis project by Craig Brown)

 

Virtual Building Models

• Dickson.wrl (75K) images (40K)
• Perloff.wrl (75K) images (40K)
• Wight Gallery.wrl (40K) images (40K)

Brief Research Description: On-line Real-time Virtual Reality

Dr. Terzidi's work focuses on on-line real-time virtual reality. Specifically, he investigates into the ways realistic models of buildings can be animated as walk-throughs remotely using the Internet. This technology is also referred to as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). He has studied extensively the implications of VRML models for the representation of architectural spaces. He is the author of many computer applications for computer vision, solid modeling, and real-time animation. His most recent work is the development of a geometric modeling system in JAVA, called formNet.

Dr. Terzidis has developed a research area that intends to help architects, designers, and artists visualize, evaluate, and present their work using the Internet. He experimented in four directions: a) models of existing, proposed, or historic buildings, b) virtual services, c) painting spaces, and d) 3D world maps.

a) Modeling building: In these projects he combines three-dimensional models of buildings with pictures to create a realistic model of an urban neighborhood. The models are then used for interactive fly and walk-through demonstrations over the Internet on any computer platform. An advantage of this method is that he uses inexpensive hardware/software and the resulting files are very small in size. There are many projects in this direction including the Getty museum, UCLA's North Campus, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and an urban block in Venice, CA.

b) Virtual Services: VRML models combined with Java code are used to create virtual services for web pages on the Internet. Specifically, a virtual cinema-theater, a video store, and an art gallery were implemented to show the potential of this approach. The idea is to show how a user might interact with a 3D environment to access or retrieve information.

c) Painting Spaces: Three-dimensional versions of existing paintings were developed. Textures were taken from the images of the paintings and mapped to the models representing the 3D world that the painting represents. Giorgio de Chirico's and David Hockney's paintings were used among others.

d) World Map: A VRML facilities management scheme has been developed for browsing and searching in a 3D hierarchical environment.