Immersive Environmental Information Visualization [Technical docs]

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Description:

Date : Jun/28/2021— Jun/29/2021

Key Words: Data Visualization, Unity, C#, Real-time data

Required Skills: Some coding experience(C# or Python) is preferred.

Required Software: Unity(LTS Release 2020.3.12f1), Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code

Required Hardware: Windows Laptop preferred

Maximum number of participating students: 15

This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of data visualization strategies in the Unity game engine. Through lectures and hands-on exercises, the attendees will learn how to import weather data from an open-source API and display the acquired data over an interactive map using a number of immersive visualization strategies.

C# Material :

• Video: Learn C# BASICS in 10 MINUTES!
• Video: C# Tutorial — Full Course for Beginners
• C# Tutorial

0. Introduction

1. Interface

2 Component

Introduction to Component Based Architecture in Games — link

• Parameter -Diagram
• AttachComponent
• Transform
• Instantiate & Destroy
• Debug & Gizmo & Visualization

3 Interaction

• Mouse event — link
• Raycast — link
• Picking & Regidbody — link
• Collision — link
• Keyboard Event — link
• Keyboard and Collision — link

4 UI

• UIBasic — link
• UIEvent— link
• UIImage— link

5 Data

Data Format and structure:

Difference between Structured, Semi-structured and Unstructured data — link
Unstructured data
Structured data- CSV
Semi-structured data- JSON, GeoJSON
Image: Remote Sensing, DEM,

• Import CSV file — link
• Import CSV by URL — link
• Import JSON by URL — link
• Rest API — link
• Import OBJ — link
• Import Image — link

7 Mesh

• Mesh Basic — link
• ProcedualCubeMesh — link
• Mesh(Bunny) from OBJ— link

8 Scene Examples

• GeoJson and Visualization — link

Day 2

1 Environmental data

2 Export 3D Geometry from Google Map

3 Import Google Map to Unity

4 Open Weather Map and UI

5 Question, Project, Discussion