User`s guide

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View Virtual World Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Working with VRML Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Add VRML Sensors to Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Interactive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23

Read VRML Sensor Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23

VR Source Block Input to Simulink Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26

Interact with Generated Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27

MATLAB Interface

Create vrworld Object for a Virtual World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Open a Virtual World with MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Interact with a Virtual World with MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Close and Delete a vrworld Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Animation Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Recording Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Manual and Scheduled Animation Recording . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

File Name Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Define File Name Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Default File Name Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Uses for File Name Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

File Name Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Manual 3-D VRML Recording with MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Manual 2-D AVI Recording with MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

Scheduled 3-D VRML Recording with MATLAB . . . . . . . . . 4-22