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This scene is of a virtual reality architectural
walkthrough of a proposed design for a permanent virtual
reality installation at the Beethovenhaus Museum in Bonn,
Germany.
MultiGen Creator allowed us to transform architectural
drawings and abstract ideas into a photorealistic virtual
scene. The scene was developed with MultiGen Creator using
architectural drawings as design templates for modeling.
Autodesk® Lightscape and Lightscape Libraries were also
used, as well as online texture libraries. MultiGen Creator's
Modify UV's plug-in, the combine faces tool, and the database
management tools were especially useful for fixing errors and
re-optimizing after converting to and from Lightscape formats.
The model was shown on the i-Cone™, a high-resolution,
stereo, 4-pipe, curved screen virtual reality device driven by
an SGI™ Onyx2.
The project proved highly valuable in getting computer
scientists, museum curators and architects to understand a
design and be able to discuss its strengths and weaknesses.
Several major design modifications occurred based on
discussions that arose after viewing the architectural model
on the I-Cone. The final design, scheduled for completion on
December 17, 2002, meets the desires and demands of everyone
involved with the project because of the use of virtual
reality as an evaluation and communications tool.
Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
Germany
T +49 2241 14 2874
www.imk.fraunhofer.de
Vertigo Systems GmbH
Beethovenstr. 5-13
50674 Köln
Germany
T +49 221 240 5471
www.vertigo-systems.de
RMH - New Media GmbH
Beethovenstr. 5-13
50674 Köln
Germany
T +49 221 272 25 0
www.rmh.de
Team:
Jeremy Eccles (Fraunhofer-IMK)
Uli Lechner (Vertigo Systems)
Florian Dombois (Fraunhofer-IMK)
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