Visualizing Glacier Ice Flow in an Immersive Environment
By Per Ekman
Abstract
This report describes the application of immersive visualization techniques
to the problem of visualizing glacier ice flow. An application based on
IRIS Performer, pfCAVE and VTK was developed to implement the visualization.
A high degree of interactivity is maintained in the application through the use of
movable probes controlled by a positional tracker. VTK proves to be a very powerful
visualization tool but one that has to be used with care in order to achieve good
performance. A major problem with the development of visualization applications for
immersive environments is the lack of a general graphical user interface
system designed for these environments.
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