Virtual Reality Technology And Application In Mine

Virtual reality as a high-tech is developed in recent years. It has already accomplished outstanding achievement in aviation and spaceflight, architecture and etc. The paper discusses how to develop the virtual mine system software by Visual C++ calling the functions in OpenGL under the environment of Windows 9x/NT. The purpose of this paper is to fulfill virtual mine system. It has significance to mining safety, mine optimum design and visualization etc.Firstly, this paper concisely introduces OpenGL, which is a 3D graphical tool, about its function, working structure,'drawing theory and implementing method in Windows system. Then the two methods of three-dimensional graphics modeling are put forward. In the following, the paper describes the total design thought, frame, and function module of the simulation software of virtual mine.The paper mentions the design of three-dimensional graphics modeling in the mine such as shaft, laneway, and equipment of transport and mining. Human-Computer interaction and viewpoint rambling in the demo system are realized so that the simulating staff may look at circumstances from different viewpoint and positions. Under the precondition of limited resources holding, the contradiction between the fidelity of image display and real-time feature of system interaction process is better resolved with using of display list and model culling technology. An example of the virtual reality system of mine is provided.At last, Progress and shortcoming of studies presented in this paper are concluded ongoing research works are proposed.