M.Sc. Projects (1998- )
Virtual Ping-Pong game on Internet demands coordinating user interactions, dynamic gaming behavior, and real-time scene display. It is a real challenge to even offer multi-user gaming capability on Internet with the same demanding features. This project will address the issues in multi-user gaming environment and develop a virtual Ping-Pong game supporting the metaphor of multiple remote players. A single-user Ping-Pong game has been developed by a previous project, which can be refined and extended to a multi-user environment. The project requires Java programming skills.
It is now feasible to compose immersive and interactive virtual worlds and distribute them over the WWW for visualization. Our goal is to compose virtual campus of CUHK and allow the users to navigate the virtual campus using Netscape browser. Some virtual models of CUHK, such as main library, computer lab., conference room, and university platform, are built by previous projects. These models will be linked in a framework for interactive navigation. The main issue to be addressed in this project is to improve the navigation efficiency of large geographic models with real-time visual effect and styles. This project requires Java programming skills and knowledge of data structures.
The country parks in Hong Kong have played an important role in promoting the ecological health and public recreation in our surrounding natures. It is necessary to build up a planning support system that provides on-line visualization of multi-scale, multi-dimension and multi-source data of HK country parks. The system will utilize client-server networking communication and intelligent service capabilities (e.g. neural network/data mining) to support advanced planning of country-park development and tourism. Some preliminary work in data collection and interface design has been conducted jointly with the Dept. of Geography of CUHK.