Related Sites

Here are links to Paradise-related research and other interesting sites in the Web.

DIS and Other Distributed Simulation Research

NRL NetLab Home Page Navy Research Lab's Netlab, and their ADS Page, including links to many other projects. This may be the most complete set of web links that refers to DIS work.
The Modeling & Simulation Web Page.
NPS and NPSNET home pages.
University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training Visual Systems Lab, IST home page, with links to other web resources related to DIS.
The US Army's STRICOM web site. STRICOM is the army's Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Commadn. The site includes long range plans for DIS in the military and links to other military-focused DIS work.
The congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has prepared a background paper that describes uses of synthetic-environment technologies and virtual reality in simulating combat. It traces technology development from the 1929 Link Trainer through the SAGE air defense system, the first head-mounted display, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's SIMNET simulator networking project. The text of the background paper is now available by anonymous ftp from OTA's ftp server
Carnegie Mellon's Netrek page.

UCL's site for Multicast Transport Protocol papers, etc.
Mbone Mail Archives.
The Jupiter system here at PARC makes routine use of IP multicast for live video and for live and recorded audio; we also anticipate using it for `telepointer' data (other users' mouse motions). The only existing public paper about Jupiter is available in .ps format by FTP form PARC.

3dSite. Very popular website (100,000 hits per week) which has pointesr to lots of 3D stuff. Check out the publications section.
China Lake 3D Repository, CA ftp site used to be maintained by the Navy, now maintained by Viewpoint. Holds 3D models in many formats, descriptions of formats, utiiities for viewing them, textures, and other 3D model-related goodies.
SGI's OpenGL WWW Center
RenderWare from Criterion Software. Criterion is a subsidiary of Canon. Information on RenderWare and demos from Criterion Software are available by http and by ftp.
List of 3D Graphics Engines, both public domain and free, from Karsetn Isakovic, TU-Berlin.

Georgia Tech's VR home page maintained by Rob Kooper.
HITL's Virtual Reality On the Web. Has a lot of nice links to other work on Virtual Reality and DIS.
Wired's VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) Web.
Knowledge Adventure World's WorldChat application is a commercially available 3D "chat" environment. The software is (now) free and requires a PC running Windows.

Environmental Effects for DIS at NRL. html slides.
An Object-oriented Technology for Integrating Environmental Effects and Distributed Simulations, by Frederick Wieland, Harry Heckathorn, NRL. html.

1-degree digital elevations models and other cartographics data are available by ftp from the USGS. This information could be useful to anyone trying to build a terrain simulation for DIS.

NPS page on PRESENCE includes contents of past, present, and future issues, along with calls for papers.

Hugh Holbrook (holbrook .at. dsg .dot. stanford .dot. edu)

Sandeep Singhal (singhal .at. dsg .dot. stanford .dot. edu)