CAVEStudy: An Infrastructure for Computational Steering in Virtual Reality Environments

We present the CAVEStudy system that enables scientists to interactively steer a simulation from a virtual reality (VR) environment. No modification to the source code is necessary. CAVEStudy allows interactive and immersive analysis of a simulation running on a remote computer. Using a high-level description of the simulation, the system generates the communication layer (based on CAVERNSoft) needed to control the execution and to gather data at runtime. We describe three case-studies implemented with CAVEStudy: soccer simulation, diode laser simulation, and molecular dynamics.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Luc Renambot, Henri E. Bal, Desmond Germans, Hans J. W. Spoelder
• Keywords: Diode Laser Simulation, Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPDC 2000, Soccer Simulation, Virtual Reality