Virtual Director

Virtual Director provides a user-friendly, virtual-reality method to control camera motion for instant playback or animation recording. The Virtual Director shown in VROOM is a camera motion-control application using the CAVE to control and play back users' input in real time. Stored camera- motion data can be used to control various computer-generated imagery cameras (e.g., Wavefront, AVS, Renderman, etc.). This demonstration also includes an astronomical simulation of colliding galaxies that has been fully rendered in batch mode with this kind of camera motion control in mind. The galactic data were simulated using a supercomputer and visualized with Wavefront.