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VR Software ViSTA


Vista Schrift

 

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Project Description

 

What is ViSTA?

  • ViSTA is a software platform that allows integration of VR technology and interactive, 3-D visualization into technical and scientific applications. The outstanding features of ViSTA are advanced interaction and visualization methods for post-processing in numerical simulation. Nearly all VR projects at the CCC are based on ViSTA.

  • ViSTA utilizes the widely used Open Source Scenegraph library OpenSG for rendering

  • ViSTA is implemented as an object-oriented (C++) cross-platform software library, available for

    • Windows
    • Linux

 

Vista Kernel

Structure of the ViSTA Core

Vista AddonLibs

ViSTA Add-On Libraries

Vista FlowLib

ViSTA FlowLib: an extension for CFD exploration

 

Supported Data formats

Geometry data

  • AC3D (ac)

  • Alias Wavefront (obj)

  • Autodesk 3D Studio mesh (3ds)

  • Object File Format (off)

  • OpenSG binary (osb)

  • OpenSG ascii (osg)

  • Surface Tesselation Language (stl, stla, stlb)

  • VRML '97 (wrl)

Visualization data

  • VTK specific data formats:

    • Dataset

    • Polygonal data

    • Rectilinear grid data

    • Structured grid data

    • Unstructured grid data

    • Field data

Image data

  • Bitmap (bmp, rle, dib)

  • DirectDraw Surface (dds)

  • Graphics Interchange Format (gif)

  • JPEG (jpg, jpeg, jpe, jfif)

  • OpenSG (mtd, opensg, opensgImage)

  • Portable Network Graphics (png)

  • Sun PNM (pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm)

  • Adobe Photoshop (psd)

  • SGI (rgb, rgba, bw, sgi)

  • TARGA (tga, targa)

  • Tagged Image File Format (tif, tiff)

Other data formats

  • Structured grid PLOT3D

  • Fluent data

  • PEP

  • NetCDF

  • TFS (The Flow Solver, AIA Aachen)
 

Supported VR Devices

  • A.R.T. (Dtrack)
  • Fastrak (Pholemus)
  • IS900
  • Flock Of Birds (Ascension)
  • Spacemouse/SpaceNavigator
  • Liberty / Patriot
  • NaviBoard
  • Phantom
  • DataGlove
 

How can I get ViSTA?

The ViSTA core libraries are open source and licesnsed under the LGPL.
You can find them on sourceforge.net as 'vistavrtoolkit'.

The FlowLib Part of ViSTA is in the process of becoming open source, too - stay tuned :-)

If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact us under support@vr.rwth-aachen.de

 

Status

  • Running

 

Funding

  • None

 

Publications

2009:

  • Torsten Kuhlen, Thomas Beer, Andreas Gerndt (2009)
    The ViSTA Virtual Reality Toolkit. 5th High-End Visualization Workshop, Baton Rouge, Lousianna

2008:

  • Ingo Assenmacher and Torsten Kuhlen (2008)
    The ViSTA Virtual Reality Toolkit, SEARIS Workhop on IEEE VR, Reno

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