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SIGGRAPH 2018 BOF
Sandy Ressler
National Institute of Standards and Technology
https://slides.com/sressler/dlmfvrbof/
https://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/jab15/HomePage/
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Digital Library of Math Functions Meets Virtual Reality
SIGGRAPH 2018 BOF
Sandy Ressler
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kevin Chen
Poolsville High School / NIST SHIP Intern
https://slides.com/sressler/dlmfvrbof/
DLMF
nearly 20 years/world class experts
VRML -> X3DOM
What would happen if we put all the DLMF surfaces into a VR environment?
DLMF VR
New Methods of Visual Browsing
Whoah!
Seriously cool dude!
Why do this?
Novel intuitive interaction..grab like a physical object
Novel color ... new color mapping relating to the math, existing is very minimal
Slicing and dicing simply physically...using results as shape searching
Novel browsing, filtering ...not limited to constraints of book and TOC
It's FUN!!!
FUN is Important
Shneiderman's Info Viz Mantra:
Overview first,
Zoom and filter,
details on demand
How to apply this to DLMF surfaces and info in a VR environment?
WebVR now WebXR
- Web Baby
- Still the best for distribution
- Native understanding of hardware
- no special software
- it's all in the browser
These are WEB Accessable
Aframe for the Win
Lots of Ideas for Future Work
- UI and AR work with the DLMF book
- Integration with real time math processing
- shape search / clipping
- 3D printing
- Try the Oculus Go version after the session
- https://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/projects.html
- DLMF in VR or smaller DLMF in VR links
Get the F*** Out of Here
