Demos

VIZ comes with a set of datasets that you can load directly from the Demos button.

Here's a brief description of the different demos. To see an updated description, look in: viz/demos/demos.txt.

Note: if the time to load has elapsed, but nothing appears on the screen, it might be that the viewpoint is not looking at the right direction: the View All function allows to show what is loaded: 
top-right toolbar: 6th button from the top (3 button from the button).
 

Mars Pathfinder

The Mars Pathfinder local terrain. Patches are loading sequentially in the interface. Once all patches (B/W) are loaded, the color texture will be loaded (Viz will freeze for about 30 sec).

Time to load: 3 min.

The bottom button labeled: '0' to '3' allow to switch textures. Note that if you load a new texture for the first time, it might freeze Viz for a couple of seconds.
 

Mojave 99 Anim

The Intelligent Mechanisms Group has conducted a full-blown field experiment with the Marsokhod robot in January 99. This is the integrated dataset.

- Time to load: 4min 40sec
- Animation: fly-through

Trench animation

An animation of the trench digging simulation performed by the Mars 98 team during the Mojave 99 Marsokhod test.
- Time to load: 2min 50sec

- Animation: show terrain at different stages of the digging. The pile of dirt growing and the trench becoming deeper should be seen. Topology is better viewed in wireframe (right mouse button, Draw Style->wireframe).
 

Mars South Pole

A fly-through to one of the proposed landing site for the Mars Polar Lander. MOC and MOLA data integrated, as well as a 10x magnified Pathfinder terrain as an example of the local site.

- Time to load: 50 seconds.

- Animation: fly-through
 

Mt Olympus (Mars)

- Time to load: 19 seconds.

Guzev (Mars)

 - Time to load: 20 seconds

MVACS Sandbox

This is the Initial dataset from the early test with the Surface Stereo Imager of the MVACS Polar Lander in sandbox at UCLA.

The animation illustrate some of the capabilities in Viz:
simultaneous fly-through with 2 different viewpoints

  • cross-section capabilities (blue markers)
  • volume measurements (green markers)
  • terrain annotation (red labeled poles)
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    MVACS Trench

    One of the objectives of the Mars Polar Lander is to dig a trench.
    This is a close-up of a simulated trench in the sandbox at UCLA (09-09-1999). The stereo-images used to reconstruct this 3D model were acquired using the Stereo Surface Imager.

    MVACS Mort6

    This is a full panorama acquired at UCLA during the MVACS Operational Readiness Test 6 (November 1999) for the Mars Polar Lander Mission. You can recognize the sandbox, which is located next to the press conference area in the Science and Technology Research Building.

    There are 3 different textures:

    1. original black and white
    2. color
    3. color-coded height

    MVACS Full pan

    Yogi is one of the most attracting rocks of the Mars Pathfinder dataset because of its size and shape.