FiPS ISEViewer Documentation
(c) 2001 by Daniel
Roth, FiPS/Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
What is it all about?
License
System Requirements
Installation
Working with the System
The FiPS ISEViewer is an easy way to create and view simple Interactive Screen Experiments. Interactive Screen Experiments have been developed by Prof. Rass and Dr. Kirstein at the IFPL of the Technical University of Berlin. They are a photorealistic and interactive documentation of real experiments:
To create a simple Interactive Screen Experiment, you have to take photos of an experiment, each photo representing the experiment in a well defined state (up to two defining parameters are possible in an ISEViewer compatible Interactive Screen Experiment).
E.g. let's consider the above experimental setup of two polarization filters. The polarization filter at the front of the setup can be rotated and the direction of polarization changed this way. To create an Interactive Screen Experiment of this experiment, you have to do:
So each photo you have taken represents the experiment in a certain state. In our example it corresponds to a certain degree of rotation of the front polarization filter. If these photos are presented to the viewer in a way that he can switch between them by moving his mouse in a one dimensional way (e.g. from left to right or from top to bottom) it will appear to him that he can rotate the front polarization filter with his mouse, experiencing exactly the kind of things the producer of the photos has experienced when doing the experiment:
While in current generation ISE produced at the IFPL of the Technical University of Berlin the user can manipulate switches and move objects, the simple ISE created with the ISE viewer can only controlled by mouse movements.
In additiion to one dimensional ISE like the one visible above, also two dimensionel ISE. In order to create a two dimensional ISE a two dimensional matrix of photos have to be taken, each photo describing the experiment in a certain state, defined by two parameters. A two dimensional version of the above ISE could be about a similar experiment, where both polarization filters can be rotated independently from each other. In order to rotate the front polarization filter, drag your mouse in the x-direction. To rotate the aft polarization filter, drag your mouse in the y-direction:
You are allowed to use the FiPS ISEViewer for free, as long as you do use it for non commercial purposes. If you want to use it for commercial purposes, you have to ask fips@physik.uni-kl.de for permission first. In any case you will use the software completely on your own risk, you will not make us (the author, University of Kaiserslautern) responsible in any way for any damage you might experience by downloading, installing and/or using the software.
In order to use the FiPS ISEViewer you need a computer with a Java enabled Webbrowser:
Hardware Software PC
Java enabled Webbrowser
Installation and Working with the System
Unzip the ISEViewer package to a whereever you want. This way you will get a folder called "ISEViewer" which looks somewhat like this:
The ISEViewer is a Java Applet ("iberviewernt.jar") which is embedded into a webpage ("index.html"). You can adapt this webpage to fit your needs, but in order to include the ISEViewer into a webpage the webpage has to include the following lines:
If you want to create your own ISE, just make the photos of the experiments in JPEG format and rename them according to the pattern "xxx_yyy.jpg" (with xxx = 000, 001, 002, ... and yyy = 000,001,... ) and put them into the same folder where the "index.html" (can also be renamed) and the embedded "ibevierwernt.jar" can be found. You can then open the "index.html" into your Java enabled Webbrowser and switch between the images by dragging your mouse in the x-direction (switches between 000_yyy.jpg, 001_yyy.jpg, ... images) or the y-direction (switches between xxx_000.jpg, xxx_001.jpg, ... images). One dimensional ISE can be realized by just using either "xxx_000.jpg" or "000_yyy.jpg" like images files, depending on the mouse direction you want the user to use for switching between images.
The size of your images should be inserted into the webpage according to the HTML lines visible above. There you can also determine the size of the ISEViewer Applet itself.
No special release notes so far...
You can get support by sending an email to fips@physik.uni-kl.de.
You can download the latest ISEViewer distribution by using the following form field. As we would like to know who is using the FiPS Media Server it would be nice to provide us with your name, email address and institution. This information will not be given away to third parties and may help us to know if it is worth to continue development.
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Btw.: We would love to get some feedback!
If you are experiencing download problems, please contact fips@physik.uni-kl.de
