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Publishing Time Dependent Oceanographic Visualizations using VRML

Jonathan C. Roberts

In Simon Grange, editor, Proceedings of the Fifth UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group - VRSIG '98, pages 182-196, September 1998 (http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/jcr/vrsig98/oceanVRML.html).

Abstract

Oceanographic simulations generate time dependent data; thus, visualizations of this data should include and realize the variable `time'. Moreover, the oceanographers are located across the world and they wish to conveniently communicate and exchange these temporal realizations. This publication of material may be achieved using different methods and languages.

VRML provides one convenient publication medium that allows the visualizations to be easily viewed and exchanged between users. Using VRML as the implementation language, we describe five categories of operation. The strategies are determined by the level of calculation that is achieved at the generation stage compared to the playing of the animation. We name the methods: 2D movie, 3D spatial, 3D flipbook, key frame deformation and visualization program.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{610,
author = {Jonathan C. Roberts},
title = {{Publishing Time Dependent Oceanographic Visualizations using VRML}},
month = {September},
year = {1998},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {(http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/jcr/vrsig98/oceanVRML.html)},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1998/610},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group -- VRSIG '98},
    editor = {Simon Grange},
}

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