WebTOP: 3D interactive optics on the Web

Authors:
Kiril Vidimče;John T. Foley;David C. Banks;Yong-Tze Chi;Taha Mzoughi
Affiliations:
Mississippi State University;Mississippi State University;Florida State University;Mississippi State University;Mississippi State University
Venue:
VRML '00 Proceedings of the fifth symposium on Virtual reality modeling language (Web3D-VRML)
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The Optics Project (TOP) is a 3D interactive computer graphics system that visualizes optical phenomena. The primary motivation for creating TOP was to develop a tool to help undergraduate students learn optics. WebTOP is a Web-based version of the system that encompasses a physical simulation, an overview of the theory involved, a showcase of examples, and a set of suggested exercises. The actual simulation is implemented using VRML, Java, and the External Authoring Interface, and runs under multiple hardware/OS/browser configurations. This work is significant in that it represents, to our knowledge, the first complete 3D interactive optics system on the Web.