Development of a 3D Simulation and Visualization Engine

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Development of a 3D Simulation and Visualization
Engine
Kevin Kassing Period 5
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Abstract

• Goal is to develop an engine to facilitate the
  creation of 3D applications and the 3D
  visualization of data
• Areas of study 3D perspective calculations, 3D
  rendering optimizations, visualization techniques
• Similar to the open source engines Irrlicht,
  OGRE, Sauerbraten, CrystalSpace

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Design

• Centered on the separation of static and animated
  objects, managed and unmanaged geometry
• Static geometry has extra optimizations
• Managed objects are stored by the engine,
  rendered automatically
• Additional resources (meshes, textures) are also
  managed

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Tools

• Programming language C
• Graphics language OpenGL
• Window management Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)

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Interoperability

• Support for rendering and animating 3D mesh
  formats
• MD2
• MD3
• MD5

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Interoperability

• Support for loading the following texture
  formats
• PNG
• WAL
• PCX
• TGA
• BMP

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Class Diagram