Virtual Wave Research Lab

Click for a preview of the Virtual Wave Research Lab
Click for a preview of the Virtual Wave Research Lab

Fly over of the large wave flume - [QuickTime]
Fly over of the spiral wave basin - [QuickTime]
Fly over of the tsunami basin - [QuickTime]
Example of sensor manipulation - [QuickTime]
Walk through of the control room - [QuickTime]

The Virtual Wave Research Lab is an applet created to give users the ability to explore a virtual recreation of the Hinsdale Wave Research Lab at Oregon State University. The VWRL was created through funding from the National Science Foundation as part of the George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) project.

The Virtual Wave Research Lab
Latest Stable Version (Requires Java3D)
Latest Trial Version (Development Mode)

Additional Information
Description of Controls
How to Record a Demo in Developer Mode
How to Create a Map
Java3D Specs on .OBJ File Support

Requrements
The Java web-browser plugin
The Java3D plugin
(The OpenGL version is recommended)

Reference Information
Java3D's specs for the Wavefront OBJ format
The Java3D API
The Java3D API v1.3 documentation

Additional Project Links
NEES@OregonState -- Contains general and detailed information Tsunami research and Information Technologyon as part of NEES project at Oregon State University
NACSE -- Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering.
O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory -- The main page of the Wave Research Lab. Includes facility description and personnel.

Credits
This project was created by Chris Moore, undergraduate student; Ron Metoyer, assistant professor in Computer Science; Tim Holt, researcher at NACSE; and Joe Tiebel, undergraduate student at Oregon Institute of Technology.

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