VIRTUAL CELL
May 4, 2009
The VR cell project is the fourth project in the Virtual Reality course, done by Lana Sun, Pisut Wisessing, and Ben Sterrett.
Utilizing data gathered by Clemson’s own high powered microscope, the program provides a three-dimensional visualization of the data which a user can “fly” through. At any point, the user may also push S and have a screen shot of what they are currently viewing.
Shot 1: You can see the bounding box to give the user a frame of reference. The user can furthermore push the middle click button on the mouse to reset his position to the very center of the data.
Shot 2: Another view of the data from a different angle. The program works by creating a plane of viewable data based off the user’s eyepoint and viewpoint. It was done this way because there’s way too much data in the cell to render all at the same time.
Shot 3: Yet another view of the data. Each individual point in the cloud is made up of GL_POINTS, which reduces the rendering time compared to writing cubes.
