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VIRPI: A High-Level Toolkit for Interactive Scientific Visualization in Virtual Reality

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Immersive Projection Technology and Virtual Environments 2001

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Research areas that require interactive visualization of simulation data tend to dismiss virtual reality due to the lack of accessible tools for application specialists. This paper presents an integral toolkit for interactive visualization in virtual reality environments. The toolkit defines a framework to build applications that allow the user to interact with arbitrary simulation software and describe virtual measurement tools for the visualized data. The approach is illustrated with a case study in medical imaging.

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  1. Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Desmond Germans, Hans J. W. Spoelder, Luc Renambot & Henri E. Bal

  2. Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henri E. Bal

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Systeme der Virtuellen Realität, Fakultät Medien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

    Bernd Fröhlich

  2. Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO, Stuttgart, Germany

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Germans, D., Spoelder, H.J.W., Renambot, L., Bal, H.E. (2001). VIRPI: A High-Level Toolkit for Interactive Scientific Visualization in Virtual Reality. In: Fröhlich, B., Deisinger, J., Bullinger, HJ. (eds) Immersive Projection Technology and Virtual Environments 2001. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6221-7_12

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