b3d ¤

fall 2004Alexander K. Bowman

loadtri.abc

• automatically view object when opened

• help window easily accessible for inexperienced users

• reorganized menu system mimics other programs for more intuitive use

interface

interface

interface

• removed dependence on scenegraph and camera modes to make interaction easier, no more mode switching, just press control and click

• reorganized event handling to allow key-press camera interaction while in scenegraph mode

graphics

• can now render nodes as cubes (fast), points (medium) or spheres (slow)

• reorganized drawing into smaller trees saving memory

• draw individual point generators as points or cubes

• turn on and off parts of the scenegraph24 nodes 15 nodes

on/off

medial axis• created function that returned the flow vector at

an arbitrary point on a patch

synchronization

• created 3dShock_Process class in order to use one class to process both MingChing’s command line viewer and the b3d viewer

problems

• resizing viewer makes shapes disappear

• vxl viewer cannot handle larger scenes as well as Windows viewer