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CVE is an open-source, multiplatform system for building low-cost collaborative virtual environments. CVE started life at New Mexico State University with support from NSF grant 0402572.
We would be delighted to build with you, or help you build, virtual editions
of your academic or organizational units. The CVE distributions
so far include the NMSU CS department within
Science Hall and the University of Idaho CS Department in the
Janssen Engineering Building.
The Facilities Office at most colleges and universities have CAD data files
with more accurate representations of buildings such as NMSU's
Science Hall which help
a Lot if you can get them. However, they are often not public for security
reasons. CVE let's you do a virtual CS department with less, starting from
floor plans. Often you do not need to model the entire building, for example,
at NMSU we are mainly interested in the 1st Floor,
while at Idaho we needed portions of every storey in the building.
Before modeling an entire building, you may want to model just a single room
to get the hang of it.
CVE's first room was a NMSU's Programming
Languages, Environments, and Automated Software Engineering Lab,
located in Science Hall Room 167, a 12'x20' room
(ceiling approximately 9' high) with a whiteboard, 4-5 workstations, and
a printer. This demo went through many revisions before giving way to a
department-wide demo.
Informal demos have been done by several other folks; to get your demo
into this section you must deliver code to Dr. J and he must be able to run
it (somewhat) successfully.
CVE has gone through a few names, it was once "nsh", standing for
"New Science Hall", or perhaps
"new shell", since the collaborative virtual environment we are building
will eventually constitute an entire working environment. Then it was
Unicron, playing on its underlying implementation language. For awhile
we wanted to call it VIEW. But ultimately these other names either are
other folks' properties or don't fit us perfectly. CVE is a generic term
for collaborative virtual environment and we do not claim it for ourselves,
but it was available on source forge and is a good fit, so we took it.
(Vista:
built on Vista 6/22/09
(Idaho mirror)
(NMSU mirror)
)
(old: 6/10/09
(Idaho mirror)
(NMSU mirror)
)
(older: 6/4/09
(Idaho mirror)
(NMSU mirror)
)
Mac batting average (.250):
What's in a Name?
