= Gerwin De Haan =
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In fall 2004 I started my Phd research at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), working on interaction and data visualisation in Virtual Reality. I have been working with Opengl Performer for a year or two but now experimenting with Osg, preparing for a remake of our (almost ancient) VR library and applications.

OSG related things of the future that would be of my (and my research's) interest:
 * 3d/VR interaction in general (e.g interaction scenario's, toolsets, widgets)
 * rapid VR application development using scripting (such as Python)
 * physically realistic behaviour of objects (e.g. collisions, constraints, deformations)
 * integration with data visualisation (e.g. VTK)
 * distributed scene graph
 * collaboration 

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In 2007, we ported our !OpenGL Performer based software to !OpenSceneGraph. We often use Python-based OSG wrappings, part of which under development on [http://code.google.com/p/osgswig/ OSG Swig], to prototype new applications an interaction techniques for our VR systems. Approaching the final months of my PhD work, I focus on rapid prototyping of interaction techniques. For this I build some StateChart and dataflow mechanisms to connect functional components, of course in Python and with graphical elements in OSG.

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More info can be found on other pages:
 * our group's [http://visualisation.tudelft.nl site]
 * my [http://gerwindehaan.nl personal] page