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Dalal
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CAVEcoaster: A lissajous coaster
Abstract
This project involves exporting the coaster into the CAVE.The coaster
is a program which draws simple lissajous curves which are given by the
equations x=asin(nt +c) , y=bsin(t).The movement along the liassajous
is done using a coaster.By pressing a key, you move into the cockpit
mode,of the "rollercoaster".The CAVE is an acronym for Cave Automatic
Virtual Enviornment which is used to simulate high leval graphics
which cannot be rendered using normal pc's.It is run on SGI
supercomputers with infinite reality graphics cards.This project helped me
learn a lot of IrisGL and also programming for the CAVE, i.e. using the
shared variables and the various CAVE functions.All programming i did was
using IrisGL.
If you want to learn more about the CAVE and programming for the CAVE you
can visit: http://cave.ncsa.uiuc.edu
In the CAVE simulator
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View from the cockpit
Here is an embedded picture.