Grasping Reality Through Illusion: Interactive Graphics Serving Science

Abstract

This document three related subjects: virtual-worlds research-the construction of real-time three dimensional illusions by computer graphics; some observations about interfaces to virtual worlds; and the coming application of virtual-worlds techniques to the enhancement of scientific computing. We need to design generalized interfaces for visualizing exploring, and steering scientific computations. These interfaces must be direct-manipulation, not command-string; interactive, not batch; 3-D, not 2-D; multi-sensory, not just visual. Needed are generalized research results for 3-D interactive interfaces. More is known than gets reported, because of a reluctance to share unproven results. The author proposes a shells-of-certainty model for such knowledge. Keywords: Man machine systems, Human factors. Author.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201086

Entities

People

  • Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Interactive Graphics
  • Light Sources
  • Mathematical Models
  • Medical Personnel
  • Navigation
  • North Carolina
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Educational Psychology