NPSNET: Constructing a 3D Virtual World

The development of 3D visual simulation systemson inexpensive, commercially available graphics workstations is occurring today and will be commonplace in the near future. Such systemsare being constructed to move through and interact with 3D virtual worlds. There are a variety of goals for these systems, including training, planning, gaming and other purposeswhere the introduction of the physical player may be too hazardous, too expensive or too frivolous to be tolerated. We present one such system, NPSNET, aworkstation-based, 3D visual simulator for virtual world exploration andexperimentation. Virtual World Systems The attention to virtual world systemsis particularly appealing to the researchersof the Graphics and Video Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at the Naval PostgraduateSchool as our focus for years hasbeen on the production of prototype 3D visual simulation systemson commercially available graphics workstations {9.18-25].3D visual simulation systemshave many...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: SI3D
• Authors: Michael Zyda, David R. Pratt, James G. Monahan, Kalin P. Wilson
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, SI3D 1992, Virtual Worlds, Visual Simulation, Visual Simulators