Realistic Visualization of Large-Scale Simulations

Voicu Popescu and Christoph Hoffmann

 

 

 

Tutorial Resources

 

 

 

Project website

 

This tutorial was developed as part of the project High-Fidelity Visualization of Large-Scale Simulations. Please visit the project webpage for a summary and for links to the publications that describe the work.

 

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/projects/pentagon.htm

 

 

Plug-in website

 

Links to documentation and binaries for the 3ds Max importer of LS-DYNA output are provided at the plug-in webpage.

 

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/projects/dynaPlugin.htm

 

 

Simulations website

 

Tutorial attendees will also find of interest the project that produced large-scale simulations of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

 

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cmh/simulation/index.html

 

 

Videos

 

The tutorial video sequences can be downloaded from the following links (we recommend that you save the video file locally before playing it).

 

 

File name and URL

Description

Approx. size

feameshes.avi

Shows the aircraft and Pentagon building column FEA meshes used in the 9/11 Pentagon simulation.

20 MB

approach.avi

Visualization of the approach of the aircraft.

29 MB

importer.avi

Raw visualization of LS-DYNA simulation results imported into 3ds Max.

15 MB

integrated.avi

Visualization of simulation results integrated into surrounding scene.

56 MB

afterimpact.avi

Visualization of Pentagon scene after impact.

102 MB

liquidraytracing.avi

Visualization of liquid/columns impact during calibration run (ray tracing).

34 MB

liquidwireframe.avi

Visualization of liquid/columns impact during calibration run (wire frame).

32 MB

cameramatching.avi

Illustration of the process of matching a photograph to the geometry it sampled, in order to estimate the position and orientation of the camera when the photograph was taken.

15 MB

projtm.avi

Illustration of projective texture-mapping using aerial photograph and Pentagon building model.

21 MB

cameraanimation.avi

Video obtained by animating a 3ds Max camera by interpolation between desired key views.

0.1 MB

cameratrajan.avi

Video obtained by animating a 3ds Max camera from a trajectory.

0.2 MB

 

 

 

Contact

 

·                    Voicu Popescu, popescu@cs.purdue.edu

·                    Christoph Hoffmann, cmh@cs.purdue.edu

 

 

 

© Voicu Popescu, Christoph Hoffmann, Purdue University, 2001-2006