PROCESS FOR CREATING EARTHQUAKE DISASTER SIMULATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A computer-assisted method for creating earthquake engineering based realistic earthquake simulation in immersive virtual reality environment comprises: careful selection of building plan and internal elements on the basis of simulation objective, then selection of a suitable earthquake ground motion data from a pool of pre-recorded or synthetic earthquake data, then designing computer based structural engineering models of buildings and internal elements therein, thereafter, generating earthquake response of the said buildings and the said elements on the basis of earthquake engineering principles, then generating three dimensional (3D) computer models of the said buildings and the said elements and also mapping the said response onto these 3D models thereby producing 3D anirnations, thereafter creating stereoscopic visual and audio renderings of said animations for the immersive virtual reality platform of interest.