VR Design for Science: Links, Fall 2008

Here's a collection of interesting links that might be useful to you when working on your assignments.

Class Resources

CS137 Wiki
A collaborative webpage where we can share ideas and Cavepainting tech support. Anyone can edit it, just like Wikipedia.
Cave Introduction
This document has mostly been superceded by the wiki! The old Cave guide, with information about starting CavePainting and importing and exporting images.
CavePainting Manual
This document has mostly been superceded by the wiki! The old manual for the tools and features of the CavePainting program.
CCV at Brown
Home page of the center where the CAVE is. Has help for tracker/projector problems, documentation, machine specs, etc.
Introductory Unix Guide
This is a simple introduction to Unix from the CS Department website. Go through the list of commands in this page to get a feel for working in Unix/Linux.
CS Department Minicourses
These are short introductory courses given at the CS Department for new students every year. Check out the course notes for Emacs, Unix Intro and Permissions. It'll help working through your assignments.

Science, Art, and Visualization Resources

How Things Fly
Pretty simple introduction to why things fly.
See How It Flies
An in-depth look at flying theory. It's for pilots, but has a lot of useful information.
Streamlines & Swirls
This little study in computational fluid dynamics focuses on air flow around sails, visualized with the help of streamlines.
Bill Buxton's technology briefs
Very comprehensive and up-to-date lists of user interaction technologies. The first one is on interaction devices.
Scientific Challenges, by Dave Willis
A very informative email response from Dave Willis (MIT) about some of the challenges you should think about for your final project.