CS137

Virtual Reality Design for Science is a course taught by David Laidlaw (from Brown CS) and Fritz Drury (from RISD Illustration), with course number CS137, CSCI1370, or ILLUS5303, depending on who you ask. This course explores the visual and human-computer interaction design process for scientific applications in immersive virtual reality.

This wiki page is a portal for CS137 students to access documents that help them work better in the class, including HOWTOs and documentation about CavePainting. All registered users can edit pages on a wiki like ours, so please sign up or log in so that you can share information with your fellow classmates.

The course webpage contains all official due dates and course information; the content of the wiki is supplementary and is mostly just documentation for the software we use.

To email your classmates, use the cs137 class mailing list.

HOWTOs

For a list of all HOWTOs, see the CavePainting HOWTO category page.

• Run CavePainting from the kiosk under normal conditions.
• Use CavePainting once you've got it started.
• Import images into CavePainting to add custom content that you've made out in The Real World.
• Troubleshoot CavePainting when stuff goes wrong.