Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, November 04, 1997, Page 4, Image 4

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Lecturer discusses use of virtual
reality in architecture design
New technology will
enable architects to
design structures with
computer programs
By Teri Meeuwsen
Higher Education Reponer
With the wave of a hand, archi
tectural designers can manipulate
architectural forms and images in
a virtual world. Using specially
designed headgear and gloves, de
signers now have the ability to cre
ate life-size images in real three-di
mension space from a custom
virtual reality platform.
Dirk Donath, head of the Com
puters in Architecture and Town
Planning Department at the
Bauhaus University in Weirmar,
Germany, is a pioneer in the use of
virtual reality-aided design, Uni
versity architecture professor
Nancy Cheng said. Donath’s re
search group has developed a
sketching and space definition
program that can translate hand
gestures into computer data.
The use of virtual reality will
help bridge the gap between com
puters and humans in a virtual
world,” Donath said.
Donath visited the University
Monday night for a lecture in
which he explained how his re
search is making it possible for de
signers to work with computers in
a more natural way.
“Keyboards and monitors are not
natural for drawing,” Cheng said.
“[Donath] is trying to make using
computers as natural as possible.”
An interdisciplinary group
from computer science, architec
ture, product design and psychol
COURTESY PHOTO
Using new computer technology, architects can design three-dimen
sional structures in a virtual world.
ogy helped to developed the soft
ware.
“I think it’s very important to
bring together such a diverse
group on such a project like this,”
Donath said.
Two different programs were
created to use in the virtual world.
The first, voxDesign, was devel
oped to give architects a simple
tool to create the early stages of the
design process, such as sketching.
This program is also used for
transferring a virtual reality design
from the laboratory to real usage,
such as public presentations. The
second program, planeDesign, is
more simple and aids the architect
with the early stages of the design
process in the virtual world.
The use of virtual reality at the
University, however, is not in the
budget, Cheng said.
"It’s really, really expensive,”
she said. “One of the most expen
sive things to do is buy a virtual re
ality set.”
Architecture major Ken
Hutchinson said he sees Donath’s
Monday night lecture as the Uni
versity’s way of looking beyond
today’s architecture program.
“We have a pretty positive pro
gram here,” he said. “The architec
ture department focuses on com
puter-aided design and has been
strong the past few years. Bringing
[Donath] in shows that our people
in control are looking towards the
future and not wanting the pro
gram to stagnate.”
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