Virtual Reality Toolbox Demo: vrheat

Heat Transfer Visualization

This demonstration illustrates the use of the Virtual Reality Toolbox with the MATLAB interface for manipulating complex objects.

In this demonstration, matrix-type data is transferred between MATLAB and a virtual reality world. Using this feature, you can achieve massive color changes or morphing. This is useful for visualizing various physical processes. We use precalculated data of time-based temperature distribution in an L-shaped metal block and send that data to the virtual world. This forms an animation with relatively large changes.

This is a step-by-step demonstration. The following features are shown:

Reshaping the object
Applying the color palette to visualize distributed parameters across an object shape
Working with VRML Text objects
Animating a scene
Synchronization of multiple scene properties.

At the end of this example, you can preserve the virtual world object in the MATLAB workspace, and then save the resulting scene to a corresponding VRML file or to carry-out other subsequent operations on it.