Extending Blender: Development of a Haptic Authoring Tool

Author

Andrews, Sheldon ; Eid, Mohamad ; Alamri, Atif ; Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El

Author_Institution

Ottawa Univ., Ottawa

fYear

2007

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

49

Abstract

In this paper, we present our work to extend a well known 3D graphic modeler - Blender - to support haptic modeling and rendering. The extension tool is named HAMLAT (haptic application markup language authoring tool). We describe the modifications and additions to the Blender source code which have been used to create HAMLAT. Furthermore, we present and discuss the design decisions used when developing HAMLAT, and also an implementation "road map" which describes the changes to the Blender source code. Finally, we conclude with discussion of our future development and research avenues.

Keywords

haptic interfaces; virtual reality; extending blender; graphic modelers; haptic application markup language authoring tool; haptic authoring tool; virtual environments; Application software; Graphics; Haptic interfaces; Layout; Markup languages; Open source software; Packaging; Rendering (computer graphics); Roads; Virtual environment; Blender; Graphic Modelers; HAML; Haptics; Virtual Environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games, 2007. HAVE 2007. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1571-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1571-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HAVE.2007.4371585

Filename

4371585