CAVERNUS

NCSA Virtual Environments Software Start-up Package

• CAVE Users Guide - This is an operations manual for creating CAVE and ImmersaDesk virtual environments.

• Dave Pape's CAVE pages - Dave Pape is the grad at EVL that develops the CAVE library, and he keeps a lot of his "training talks" on his Web site...

• Dave Pape's VR class - This site is a step by step introduction to using the CAVE Library.

• CAVE Configuration Tricks - Here are a few "tricks of the trade" as practiced by CAVE users at the Electronic Visualization Lab.

• Programming Tutorial - here are the beginnings of another tutorial on programming for the ImmersaDesk and CAVE environments, including lab exercises, etc.

• VSS Reference Manual - Reference Manual to version 3.0 of VSS ("Vanilla Sound Server"), developed at NCSA.
  VSS 2.x versions can be downloaded here!

• Scientific Visualization Tools and Tutorials - contains visualization methods, commercial visualization and graphics packages, NCSA developed visualization packages and other free visualization packages.

• vtkActorToPF - The idea is that you can compute geometry using vtk and render using Iris Performer. Using vtkActorToPF, you can write interactive visualization applications for CAVE environments without much trouble.

• VRML 1.0 class - A comprehensive tutorial on getting started with VRML.

• VRML in the CAVE - VRML in the CAVE is an exciting area of research. Hopefully we will have a VRML2CAVE demo available soon on the applications page.

• CAVE-2-CAVE CAVEcomm Users Manual - This is an operations manual for creating collaborative virtual environments using the CAVE libraries.

• CAVE compatible software - Virginia Tech has a great resource on CAVE compatible software contacts.