Consulting,
Design,
and Production Services |
Pioneering the Rich Media Frontier, VirtuWorlds'
international team of 3D Techno-Artisans builds
High-Quality customizable Virtual Environments for Commerce,
Community, and Culture.
By utilizing
the VirtuWorlds™ talented stable of information design
specialists, technical experts, and media designers,VirtuWorlds
is able to provide clients with top-notch consulting and
design options, AND custom implementation solutions for
their 3D Web needs.
- Graphics
and Interaction Design
- Prototyping,
Modeling, Asset Management
- Server and
client-side scripting and Programming :
ECMAscript/JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Java
- Technology
Integration and Content Production:
X3D, VRML, Shout3D, XML, XSL, SQL,
HTML
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Courseware
and Training
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As a
key contributor to numerous industry initiatives and technologies,
I have presented tutorials and workshops for the integration
of Web3D media into concept, workflow, sharing, and
publication.
Technical or marketing coursewares from Introductory
to Advanced.
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Current
Research:
3D Information Displays,
Interactions, and Architectures |
I am investigating
cognitive approaches to interactive visualization in virtual
environments. Specifically, I am interested in perception
and information design for embedding and coordinating multiple
information types inside 3D environments. Recent work
highlights the use and advantages of open standards such
as XML and X3D for "Information-Rich Virtual Environments". In conjunction
with Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute, we are applying our research to the visualization
of immune system simulations and the
further improvement of softwares and international standards.
Advisors:
Dr. Doug Bowman and Dr. Chris
North
Virginia Tech Department and Computer Science and
Center for Human Computer Interaction
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| Publications |
Conferences
- Polys, Nicholas F., Bowman, Doug A.,
North, Chris (2004). Information-Rich Virtual Environments: Challenges
and Outlook. NASA Virtual Iron Bird Workshop (Day 2, paper &
video), NASA Ames.
- Polys,
Nicholas F., Bowman, D., North, C., Laubenbacher, R., Duca, K., (2004). PathSim
Visualizer: An Information-Rich Virtual Environment for Systems Biology.
Web3D Symposium, Monterey, CA, ACM Press. [paper, project
website]
- Polys,
Nicholas F., North, C., Bowman, D., Ray, A., Moldenhauer, M., Dandekar, C.
(2004). Snap2Diverse: Coordinating Information Visualizations and Virtual
Environments. SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA),
San Jose, CA. [paper,
qt video]
- Bowman, D., North, C., Chen, J., Polys,
N., Pyla, P., and Yilmaz, U. (2003). Information-Rich Virtual Environments:
Theory, Tools, and Research Agenda. Proceedings of ACM Virtual Reality
Software and Technology, Osaka, Japan, ACM Press.
[paper, qt video]
- Polys, Nicholas F., (2003). Stylesheet
Transformations for Interactive Visualization: Towards Web3D Chemistry Curricula.
Web3D Symposium, St. Malo, France, ACM Press.
[ paper,
examples webpage]
- Brutzman,
Don, Kass, Michael, Polys, Nicholas F. X3D Content
Examples, Editing, Conformance Suite and Software Development
Kit. Sketches and Applications, SIGGRAPH
2001 ACM Press. http://sdk.web3d.org
Journals
- Polys,
Nicholas F., and Bowman, Doug A. (2004). Desktop Information-Rich Virtual
Environments: Challenges and Techniques. Journal of Virtual Reality
(to appear).
[ submitted; nodes and report]
Book Chapters
Specifications
Posters
- Polys,
Nicholas F., Duca, K. A., Laubenbacher, R., Bowman, D. A., North, C. (2003).
Interactive Visualization of Biological Databases using
Information-Rich Virtual Environments. Digital Biology: The Emerging
Paradigm, Silver Springs, MD, National Institute of Health.
The poster
as sized to an 11 inch x 17 inch .pdf
file is available here!
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