Re: [Visualpython-users] Multiple windows into a scene

[Jon S. <js...@gm...>]

Another application is for immersive computing.  We have created an
inexpensive immersive four screen projection system.

I should think that the stereoscopic capabilities in Vpython are already a
start on this?  


On 3/24/08 12:21 PM, "Rob Salgado" <sa...@ph...> wrote:

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> Yes, this would be a great idea.
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> In some of my past programs, I've done that clumsy workaround
> ("a separate scene for each view, and copy each object into all of them,...")
> that you have suggested. In fact, my workaround raised the bug(?)/feature
> of copyobjects() in an earlier version of VPython.
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> Here are some ideas where multiple-views of the same scene would be useful:
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> - a zoomed-in view akin to a magnifying glass over the scene
> 
> - top-view vs. side-views (as seen in engineering graphics)
> 
> - different reference frames for two-body collisions, for
> inertial-vs-noninertial viewpoints, and for other relativistic situations
> [these are merely "camera" transformations]
> 
> - alternate representations: spatial-vs-spacetime viewpoints [the spatial
> one being a "projection" of the spacetime one]
> 
> It seems this multiple-viewpoint feature would require fewer Python
> objects and less bookkeeping of these objects... as well as be more
> faithfully representative of the idea that one physical situation is being
> viewed from different perspectives.
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> rob salgado
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