Virtual Reality in the sec. XVII

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Virtual Reality in the sec. XVII
Sérgio LealCreating Dynamic Visualizations and
AnimationsInstitute of Computer Graphics and
VisionTU-Graz2002/2003mcamara_at_sbox.tugraz.at
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Absentation

• The Turk and Ottomans tribes constantly invade
  Europe, capturing the population, making them
  slaves and pillaging everything.
• Austria and Poland were always attacked.

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Interdiction

• A treaty of mutual help was signed between
  Austria and Poland.
• The Turkish wanted to invade Vienna once again
  and after that conquer Poland.
• Poland needed to help Austria but there was the
  eminent danger of invasion by Ottoman forces

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Violation

• Jan Sobieski, King of Poland, went to war against
  the Turkish
• He warns the Ottoman that if they try to invade
  Poland he will hunt them down

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Reconnaissance

• Kara Mustapha (Turkish commander) got to know
  that Jan Sobieski was coming
• But continued to attack Vienna

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Delivery

• Kara Mustafa, had at his command approximately
  140,000 men.

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Trickery

• Mustafa sent some spies to trick Jan Sobieski.
• The spies told Sobieski that the Turkish had many
  men and would kill them all if the Polish would
  come to battle
• And the Ottoman would invade Poland when the
  Polish army would be dead

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Complicity

• Jan Sobieski hear this and thought it would be
  true.
• His troops lost all the moral.
• They just thought of their loved ones

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Damage

• There was nothing else to do
• They had to go back to Poland
• The Polish had lost without fighting

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Mediation

• On that night Jan Sobieski had a dream.

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Trial

• He could win this war.
• He had came so far.
• If he would not fight, he would surely lose.
• He had at least to try.

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Attainment of magical object

• Then we was blessed with an idea.
• He had a vision on his dream
• He got to know how to trick the Turkish army

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Struggle

• His idea was
• He made a small part of his army walk all day
  long around a small hill.
• While the other, bigger part, of his army rested.
• The Turkish spies where counting the Polish
  troops
• They saw hundreds of troops because they where
  always going around the hill.

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Struggle

• OBS this was the first Virtual Reality
  experience fully reported,
• Perfect immersion
• Low interactivity
• Good display devices, scaling factor...
• When the Turkish commander got to know the number
  of Polish troops he ordered his army to retreat
  because they had too few soldiers.
• Jan made his troops attack Mustafa when they
  where retreating.

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Liquidation

• 14.000 Turkish men where killed
• Jan had won the war

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Return

• Vienna was free
• King Jan Sobieski was a hero
• He saved Vienna and Europe

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Wedding

• The Emperor of Austria gave him some land and his
  daughter to marry
• And lived happy ever after

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Virtual Reality in the sec. XVII

• THE END
• By Sérgio Leal

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References

• Propp Functions
• http//www.midisegni.it/Eng/proppEng.html
• Creating Dynamic Visualizations and Animations,
  ICM, TU-GRAZ, Prof. Andrej Ferko.
• Historical background
• The beauty of Computer Graphics, ICM, TU-GRAZ,
  Prof. Andrej Ferko.
• Free online Encyclopaedia - http//www.wikipedia.o
  rg/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
• The Battle of Vienna September 12, 1683, by
  Richard Lysiak - http//www.iyp.org/polish/history
  /vienna.html