Assignment: Design a structure based on virtual history, using the viewer project as a base.

Our Project: for this project we created a Roman 'theator' or meeting hall based on the Odeion in Athens. we implemented the FOB code with the viewer to create an imersive fly-through expirience.

To build the source code, issue:

Then, to run the navigator in Flock of Birds mode, issue:

The environment we have created is in roman/roman_w_groups.obj.

If you prefer to use mouse controls, issue:

Once in the navigator, the user interface is:

• Left mouse - forward,
• Right Mouse - reverse,
• VR Helmet- look around and point

Type 'q' in the terminal and press Return to exit the program.

Features:

• Baked vertex color - adds some shadowing and highlights without extra lights.
• True stereoscopic display - looks like it's coming right at you
• File input and mouse/FOB control setup selectable from command line
• Texture mapping for all objects, including per-face texturing for objects
• Rendering procedure is highly optimized. Our environment is build out of more than 50,000 polygons. Two preprocessing phases are used to speed performance:
  1. Nearby vertices are merged.
  2. Faces with the same material and texture are grouped and drawn all in a row in a single glBegin()
  Both of these steps are generalized and not obj-file dependent. The first was inherent in the library we based our obj-file loader on, the second was hand-coded.
• While the basic library we used (citation in its intial comments) provided functionality to load vertices and faces, all texture code (except for "vt"s) was added.

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