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More TRANSF, VR Programming

More TRANSF, VR Programming. Glenn G. Chappell CHAPPELLG@member.ams.org U. of Alaska Fairbanks CS 481/681 Lecture Notes Monday, February 16, 2004. Review: Representing T’formations [1/4]. 4  4 Matrices Very general. Good for a pipeline! Too general?

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More TRANSF, VR Programming

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  1. More TRANSF, VR Programming Glenn G. ChappellCHAPPELLG@member.ams.org U. of Alaska Fairbanks CS 481/681 Lecture Notes Monday, February 16, 2004

  2. Review:Representing T’formations [1/4] • 44 Matrices • Very general. • Good for a pipeline! • Too general? • Tough to retrieve info about “the rotation” when you cannot even be sure it is a rotation. • 16 numbers. • Angle-Axis • Nice way to specify rotations. • A bit nasty for computation involving rotations (composition, etc.) • Euler Angles (roll, pitch, yaw) (also: x rotation, y rotation, z rotation) • Ick! • Ick, ick, ick, ick! • Quaternions • Great for computation. • Compact. • Easy to convert to other forms. • Best (IMHO) all-around representation, if you only need to represent rotations. CS 481/681

  3. Review:Representing T’formations [2/4] • The quaternions are a generalization of complex numbers. • Three square roots of –1: i, j, k. • Quaternions are of the form a + bi + cj + dk, for a, b, c, d real numbers. • Addition, subtraction are as usual (component-wise). • For multiplication: • i2 = j2 = k2 = –1. • ij = k; jk = i; ki = j. • ji = –k; kj = –i; ik = –j. CS 481/681

  4. Review:Representing T’formations [3/4] • We can think of the i, j, k part of a quaternion as a 3-D vector. • So a quaternion is a real number plus a vector: a + u. • a is the real part. • u is the vector part or pure part. • Addition: (a + u) + (b + v) = (a + b) + (u + v). • Multiplication:(a + u)(b + v) = (ab – u·v) + (av + bu + uv). • We represent a rotation of an angle α about an axis u (unit vector) as a quaternion as follows: • With this representation, composition of rotations is just multiplication. CS 481/681

  5. Review:Representing T’formations [4/4] • A transformation of a rigid 3-D body can be modeled as: • A rotation about a line through the origin … • Followed by a translation. • Putting these together, we can represent anything a rigid body can do: • Any translation. • Any rotation. • Corkscrew motions as well. CS 481/681

  6. Review:The TRANSF Package • TRANSF defines 6 classes, organized as follows: • TRANSF has two source files: • vecpos.h • Defines and implements classes vec & pos. • transf.h • Defines and implements classes rot, orient, transf, frameref. • Also #include’s vecpos.h. • All classes and global functions are placed in namespace tf. • There is also a file tfogl.h. • This is an experimental OpenGL interface. CS 481/681

  7. More TRANSF:Classes vec & pos [1/2] • Class vec can be thought of as: • An array of three double’s. • A 3-D vector. • A translation. • Class pos: • An array of three double’s. • A point in 3-D space. • We can do the usual operations: vec v1, v2, v3; pos p1, p2; double d; d = dot(v1, v2); v3 = cross(v1, v2); p2 = p1 + v1; v3 = v1 + v2; v3 = 3. * v1; v3 = p1 – p2; CS 481/681

  8. More TRANSF:Classes vec & pos [2/2] • Certain operations are not defined. • These allow you to catch bugs during compilation. vec v1, v2; pos p1, p2; double d; // Each of the following lines results in an error: dot(p1, p2); cross(p1, p2); 3. * p1; v1 – p1; p1 + p2; d + v1; v1 = p1; CS 481/681

  9. More TRANSF:Classes rot & orient • Class rot represents a rotation. rot r(30, vec(1,1,0)); // r is a rotation of 30 degrees about the line // through the origin and the point (1,1,0) • Just as pos is an “absolute” version of vec, orient is an absolute version of rot. orient x(30, vec(1,1,0)); // The orientation resulting from applying the // above rotation to the standard orientation CS 481/681

  10. More TRANSF:Classes transf & frameref • Class transf represents a rigid 3-D transformation. • It is specified as a rotation (rot) followed by a translation (vec). rot r; vec v; … transf t(r, v); • Class frameref is an absolute version of class transf. CS 481/681

  11. More TRANSF:Transformations • There are three transformation classes: vec, rot, transf. • They can be composed: v3 = compose(v1, v2); r3 = compose(r1, r2); t3 = compose(t1, t2); • They can be inverted: v2 = v1.inverse(); • They can be applied to vec’s, pos’s, their own type, and their own absolute type. p2 = r1.applyto(p1); CS 481/681

  12. More TRANSF:Examples • This method of dealing with transformations makes certain operations very easy. • Recall (from 381) the problem of determining where the viewer is. • The viewer lies at the location that model/view puts at the origin. • So we need to apply the inverse of model/view to the origin. • Now we can just do it: transf mv; // Holds model/view transformation … const pos origin(0. ,0. ,0.); pos whereami = mv.inverse().applyto(origin); • In which direction is the viewer looking? const vec negz(0., 0., -1.); vec lookdir = mv.inverse().rotpart().applyto(negz); CS 481/681

  13. More TRANSF:Using with OpenGL • To use TRANSF with OpenGL, try tfogl.h. • Comments on this file are very welcome! • Examples: pos p; vec n, v; rot r; transf t; glNormal(n); glVertex(p); glTranslate(v); glRotate(r); glTransform(t); // Hopefully it is obvious what this // should do. CS 481/681

  14. VR Programming:Review from 381 • Recall (from CS 381): • In Virtual Reality, we want to give users the sense that they are inside a computer-generated 3-D world. • This is called the sense of presence. • We accomplish this using: • 3-D display • Head tracking • For proper perspective, etc. • Some kind of 3-D input device • An environment that surrounds the user, and which the user can walk around in (literally). • VR hardware comes in two categories: • Head-mounted. • Theater-style. CS 481/681

  15. VR Programming:Hardware • The CAVE • Developed in the early 1990’s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the U. of Illinois at Chicago. • Theater-style, roughly cubical. • Multiple flat, rectangular screens (“walls”). • 3-D input is a mouse-like “wand”. • Stereo done using shutter glasses. • Our main VR display is a Mechdyne MD Flex, which is based on the CAVE. CS 481/681

  16. VR Programming:Libraries • VR programming usually involves a specialized VR library. • The VR library plays a role similar to that of GLUT. • We still use OpenGL for frame rendering. • We do not use GLUT (except possibly glutSolidTorus, etc.). • VR libraries generally handle: • Creation & sizing of windows, viewports, OpenGL contexts. • Interfacing with VR input devices. • Setting projection & model/view matrices for the user’s viewpoint. • Creation & management of multiple processes or threads. • Including inter-process communication, shared data spaces, etc. • Callback registration and execution. • Or some other way of getting the display code executed when necessary. • Dealing with varying display hardware. • E.g., we can change the number of screens without recompilation. • Handling stereo. • Networking of some sort (sometimes). CS 481/681

  17. VR Programming:The CAVE Library • The CAVE team developed a VR library: the CAVE Library. • Now a commercial product: CAVELIB, sold by VRCO. • Written in “C”, and similar to GLUT in many ways. • Works with varying hardware and CG libraries (including OpenGL). • For each frame, a display callback is called twice for each wall. • Or once per wall, if in mono. • Multiple processes: • Computation • Runs main program. • Unlike with GLUT, application maintains overall control. • Tracking • Manages input devices. • Does not execute user code. • Display • There may be several of these (one for each wall?). • Executes display callback. • Processes communicate via shared memory, read & write locks. • Input-device data gotten via function calls, not callbacks. • No events! CS 481/681

  18. VR Programming:VR Juggler — Introduction • We will be using a VR library called VR Juggler. • Development team led by Carolina Cruz-Neira, formerly of CAVE team at EVL, now at the VR Applications Center, Iowa State. • Under active development. • Open-source. • Written in C++. • Works with varying hardware and CG libraries (including OpenGL). • Uses threads, not processes. • Computation & display, as with CAVELIB. CS 481/681

  19. VR Programming:VR Juggler — Coding • Programmer writes an object called a “VR Juggler Application”. • Member functions are callbacks. • Everything is done via callbacks. • As with GLUT, application gives up overall control. • Display threads all execute draw. • Main/computation thread is synchronized with display, executes preFrame, intraFrame, postFrame. • Input-device management is synchronized also. • Devices are read once per frame. • Data is available via function calls. CS 481/681

  20. VR Programming:VR Juggler — Frame Execution • VR Juggler execution is based on the idea of a frame. • Each frame, the major callbacks are called once. • The draw callback is called once per wall-eye. • Because of this synchronization: • Locks are unnecessary. • Make sure that neither draw nor intraFrame accesses a variable that the other writes to. • Synchronization of computation with drawing is very easy. • It is automatic, in fact. • Long computations spanning many rendering cycles are tricky. • With CAVELIB, on the other hand, this is very easy. Start of Frame preFrame intraFrame draw draw postFrame End of Frame CS 481/681

  21. VR Programming:VR Juggler — Our Addition • We have written a C++ class to aid with input-device interfacing in VR Juggler: jugglerUser. • Written by Don Bahls and (theoretically) myself. • Includes functions for getting info from various input devices. • Returns TRANSF types. CS 481/681

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