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Electromagnetic field visualization in virtual reality

2019; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 87; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1119/1.5080224

1943-2909

Joel Franklin, Andrew Ryder,

Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

We developed two virtual reality demonstrations for electromagnetism. For statics, we use spherical building blocks and superposition to calculate the electric field of a user-generated configuration of charge. The electric field information is displayed on a three-dimensional grid using vector arrows. A second demonstration displays field information for electromagnetic fields generated by a particle moving along a user-generated path (at arbitrary speed). We used the Unity game creation engine to efficiently develop the demonstrations, and tested them on an HTC Vive VR headset with handheld controllers.