A Remote Visual Interface Tool for Simulation Control and Display

Abstract

This thesis discusses the design and development of the Visual Interactive Simulation Interface Tool (VISIT). VISIT was designed to provide the graphical representation and user interface for a simulation that is running on another processor utilizing internet communications. The system provides support for various input devices to control the simulation display and environment. Simulation objects are displayed using either a three-dimensional wireframe representation or a Gouraud shaded representation. Viewer interaction to the simulation is provided by a collection of commands that allow the viewer to initialize, start, stop, abort, and restart the simulations. The viewer also has the ability to establish checkpoints. Upon reaching a checkpoint the viewer can step through the output display and/or manipulate the objects within the simulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA231019

Entities

People

  • William J. Derouchey

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • C Programming Language
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • User Interface
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Vision.
  • Database Systems and Applications