Development of three dimensional Hong Kong on the internet- ll (USA mainland street)

Abstract

With the increasing growth of Computer Graphic (CG) technology, people can see many of the virtual worlds in films and animated videos. However these kinds of films and videos are made with already made story board, that means people can only see the virtual worlds and animations, but have no interaction with them. Virtual Reality technology can provide users with a view on 3D cyber world and interaction between the users and the world. The main objective of this project is to build a 3D landmark for the Hong Kong Disneyland using Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) with other drawing tool like Internet Space Builder (ISB). Basically Hong Kong Disneyland is consisted of four parts including U.S.A Mainland Street, Adventureland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. But as we only have three people so Adventureland is ignored. My part is on building the U.S.A Mainland Street which contains totally 21 buildings including CityHall, Fire Department, Emporium, Carriage House, Curiosity, Main Street Mercantile, Goods and Fine Gifts, Opera House, Main Street Sweet, Centennial Hall, Professional Building, Photo House, Millinery House, MidTown Jewelry, Camera House, Bakery, Crystal Arts, Anderson House, Main PlazaInn, Main Street Corner Café and HouseWare and other common object like tree, rubbish bin, car, lamp post, adding background sound and link the three worlds together. From the engineering perspective, I have used Polygon Reduction/ Reuse Technique, VRML file compression technique in the aims of optimising the file size so that the both navigation speed and file loading time can be improved. In order to efficiently manage the program structure, hierarchical structure technique which is called Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) has been used to create animations.