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Prof. Hui's Virtual Aquarium Exhibits
at the Hong Kong Science Museum
Jan 2005
Prof. KC Hui's Virtual Aquarium
will be exhibited for 3 months starting Dec 17, 2004
in the New Science Corners of the Hong Kong Science
Museum.
The Virtual Aquarium system is a
computer system for simulating an underwater environment.
Users wearing passive polarized eye-glasses will be
able to observe stereoscopic images of dolphins or other
sea creatures swimming around. The Virtual Aquarium
system is constructed with a low cost multi-screens
stereoscopic projection system, and adopted a curve-pair
based freeform modelling technique for simulating dolphin
motions. Conventional multi-screens virtual reality
systems require the use of special hardware for synchronizing
the images on the screens. This setup uses a client/server
approach for the synchronization. Motions of the dolphins
and other sea creatures can be adjusted by using mouse
input, keyboard input, or low cost optical tracking
techniques. Visitors can experience an underwater environment
without getting into water by enjoying the three-dimensional
Virtual Aquarium Demonstration.
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