Akureyri Tourism Virtual World

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Tourism Virtual World of Akureyri

• Group 3 members
• Einar Máni Friðriksson
• Ellen Ellertsdóttir
• Hallur Gunnarsson
• Jónas Friðrik Steinsson
• Sigurbjörg Gróa Vilbergsdóttir

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Problem Specification

• A town called Akureyri in northern Iceland is
  very keen to see a growth in tourism and an
  extension of the holiday season. Building a
  virtual world of Akureyri and key attractions
  might persuade more people to come. Perhaps this
  virtual world could be delivered over the web or
  on CD-ROM.

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Project description

• The aim of the project was to make a Tourism
  Virtual World of Akureyri
• The purpose of the application is to attract more
  tourists to Akureyri
• The application will display a small part of
  Akureyri in detail i.e. the Akureyri Church

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Selecting a Software Tool

• Find possible three dimensional Open Source
  Software (OSS) to create the TVW
• Evaluate the tools available
• Choose best tool available
• Chose Art of Illusion (AOI) which is a OSS three
  dimensional modelling tool

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Problems with AOI

• AOI has an import facility only for Wavefront
  object (OBJ) files
• Focus on finding a way to import the data in
  other graphical formats
• No systematic documentation about the structure
  of the source code of AOI available

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The Project Split in Two Parts

• 3 members of the group tackled the graphical
  format conversion issues
• 2 members of the group tackled the matter of
  constructing the user interface of the TVW

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Geographical Data

• Get geographical data from Fasteignamat Ríkisins
• Study the fifteen different graphical formats
  available from Fasteignamat Ríkisins
• We concluded that Drawing Exchange Format (DXF)
  would be most suitable

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The Search for a Converter

• Many promising converters on the Internet
• Narrowed the choice down to three OSS converters
  which were SPD converter and dxf2obj both written
  in C, a converter written in Perl, and a
  freeware converter called Crossroads
• None of them worked efficiently

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The DXFtoOBJ Converter

• Started to create a converter that would work on
  basic shapes
• The converter is very limited and only works on
  specific DXF files
• Further development would concentrate on
  increasing it functionality by studying the two
  formats more

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Description of the User Interface

• It is run as a HTML document and all other
  elements of the TVW are implemented or embedded
  within it
• The user interface can be opened in any web
  browser which supports the Java Virtual Machine
• Several JavaScript function are used

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Problems and Obstacles

• Searching on the Internet is the story of our
  project
• Bad alt tags in search engines
• Lack of information about Virtual Reality
• Lack of documentation in the OSS community
• Lack of standards for graphical formats
• Dependent on Fasteignamat Ríkisins for data

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Final Outcome

• The overall goal was to create a virtual world of
  Akureyri
• That goal has not been completed
• The TVW is in fact composed of a limited
  graphical format converter and a user interface
  which contains information about Akureyri

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