VISFILES Visualization Spaces as the CAVE. We are encouraged by that experience, yet we also agree with Hibbard that advances are needed before virtual environments can be more widely adopted for scientific visualization. In this column, I'll characterize some of the applications that have been successful in the NCSA CAVE. I'll also describe my group's Visual Spaces project - an effort to assemble display and interaction environments that are affordable and easy to use. distant edges of campus and from out of town to use this tool in the CAVE. Virtual D i r e c t o r is a tool for choreography and animation, useful in visualization as a way t o define camera paths. Using the gesture and speech commands available in Virtual Director, the user specifies keyframe parameters for the visualization, which are then interpolated for rendering and playback of the animation sequence. Virtual Director is particularly useful for constructing sophisticated camera movements for flying through the data.That kind of operation is very difficult, and tedious, t o do in most desktop animation software packages, but it is very easy to do in the physical interaction space provided by the CAVE. The Virtual Prototyping
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