VRUNIVERSE - Projects Page

Welcome to my projects!

While I am very busy as a VRML content creator since January '97 I actually find time once in a while to do my own little projects.

My main interests are (scientific) information visualization, simulation and artificial intelligence/life. I hope that I can do more significant work in this area in '98. For now, please enjoy my demonstrations and if you have any questions please feel free to drop me a line.

My professional VRML work has been mostly at Intervista, Planet9, and infoplasm. With Planet9 I won 2nd place at WorldMovers'97 in the business category. At SIGGRAPH'97 my voluntary work at Biota's NerveGarden as well as the renowned Schnitzel were featured at the VRML demo show.

An "InfoBall" lets you open spheres of information and navigate through hyperlinked knowledge spaces.
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but looks much better with Cosmo Player.

The "InfoScrew" drills into layers of information a click at a time. Best suited for tree structured data with levels of equal size.
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This robot can be manipulated via a Java popup window. The main axes and the gripper are moved with scrollbars.
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This is a 3 dimensional barchart which the user can animate over time.
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Try your luck with this fortune cookie. Click on the red ball for a new serving.
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The animation data was created with AUTOLEV kinematic analysis. Click on the robot to start the animation.
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For Trekies: Chase Nomad with your mouse and make him go nuts. Click on the headline to start the show.
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The cherry blossom and the turtle are traditional Japanese symbols of luck. I combined them with a circuit board to build a bridge into the 21st century.
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A Java program that extracts all IndexedFaceSets from a VRML source file and converts them to separate Java3D classes.