The VisBox(TM) is an affordable yet complete projection-based VR system with head-tracking and stereo display. Shown here is a simple isosurfacing application written with VTK and vtkActorToPF that runs on the system. The regular VTK renderer can also be used with a modified vtkOpenGLCamera class.
More details at www.visbox.com.
VE-Suite is a virtual engineering design analysis toolkit that is being developed at VRAC at Iowa State.
MultiPhase/Virtual Reality
MPVR is a virtual reality tool for visualizing multiphase flows. The project is headed by Prof. Eric Loth from the AAE department at the University of Illinois. Other members of the group include William Sherman from NCSA, Todd Bocksell from the AAE department, and programmers Aric Aumann and Chris Navarro.
3D Visualization of Building Services
The BS-VE project uses VTK, vtkActorToPF, Performer, and VR Juggler to visualize indoor climate integrated with a photorealistic space model in the EVE vr environment at the Helsinki University of Technology. Here is the MS thesis (PDF) by Marrku Mantere and here is a short paper (PDF).
The RiverWeb project is an NSF funded consortium consisting of NCSA and 3 museums. The topic of the project is an interactive computational model of the Mississippi River, with exhibits at each of the three sites. One component of the exhibit is a riverboat barge-pilot simulator (snapshot). More info here.
I used VTK to process the terrain data (elevation, landcover, etc.) and Perfomer for the vis-sim.
A Tool for Rapid Tele-Immersive Visualization
LIMBO/VTK was developed by Jason Leigh using vtkActorToPF.
We wrote a "Late Breaking Hot Topics Paper" for Visualization '98 about LIMBO/VTK. Click here to download. (postscript, 6.2MB)
My CAVEvis tool for the visualization of scientific datasets. The tool supports astronomical datasets (FITS) as well as HDF. It allows the user to view multiple semi-transparent isosurfaces as well as slices.
An earlier version of this tool was demonstrated by Paul Sotirelis at Supercomputing '97.
Auckland's heart reconstructed in Salford's CAVE by F Kleinermann and K Tan.
Per Ekman from PDC in Sweden is visualizing glacier ice flow in PDC's 6 sided CAVE using VTK and vtkActorToPF.
Erik Engquist from PDC in Sweden is using vtkActorToPF for the GEMSviz project.
GEMSviz is a modular computational steering package that makes use of Globus and VTK. It is being used for electromagnetic field visualization.
Students at VRAC at Iowa State University are working on a project to visualize vector quantities as well as many scalar quantities for a coal burning furnace to improve efficiency.
They are using vtkActorToPF together with Iowa State's VRJuggler VR library. VRJuggler has interfaces to both OpenGL and Performer.
Using vtkActorToPF, an existing desktop VTK application (cbay) was easily ported to the CAVE.
cbay is an application that visualizes a simulation of the Chesapeake Bay.