The NSF Academic Research Infrastructure proposal was funded at $1.6M. Both the CAVE(tm) White Paper and the CAVE(tm) Final Proposal are linked here along with other information below about CAVE(tm) technology.
The Virginia Tech CAVE(tm) proposal was written in partnership with NCSA as part of the University ACITC Visualization Group where both on- and off-campus programs will benefit from this ACITC resource. There are other proposals related to the CAVE(tm) proposal, also in partnership with NCSA. Other relevant links about CAVE(tm) programs at Virginia Tech are the NCSA-SGI Power Grid Alliance / Proposal (accepted) and the NSF NCSA-PACI Proposal (awarded, 3/97). In addition, with the discount from the NCSA-SGI Power Grid Alliance, the College of Engineering has bought an ImmersaDesk.
Information about the VT CAVE(tm):
Information about the EVL & NCSA's VR Lab & CAVE(tm):
The CAVE(tm) is a virtual reality environment. The word is an acronym: CAVE
Automatic Virtual Environment. The CAVE(tm) was conceived in 1991 by Thomas
DeFanti and Dan Sandin. Below I've listed several web links to more information
on the CAVE(tm).
CAVE(tm) setup. This picture was taken by a direct screen capture from http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EVL/docs/SHOWCASE/cave/cave.html
Image 3-D projection. These next two pictures were downloaded as SGI rgb SHOWCASE image files from http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EVL/docs/SHOWCASE/cave/AboutCAVE.html
A lso-resolution volume-rendering of an entire horse fetlock dataset. A full resolution rendering of a subvolume is shown in the smaller box.
NCSA Senior Research Programmer Rachael Brady in the CAVE(tm) working with an image of a Drosophila wassermani sperm tail. The entire sperm tail (red) has been traced with Crumbs software.
Questions or comments, please contact kriz@wave.esm.vt.edu
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