Welcome to the ARéVi Website
ARéVi stands for Atelier de Réalité Virtuelle, which translates as Virtual Reality Toolkit. ARéVi is a C++ library for the simulation of autonomous entities and 3D rendering. The goal is to provide a tool set to simplify the creation of virtual reality applications. ARéVi provides (among other features):
- Means to give the entities some activities, scheduling and inter-entities communication;
- User interaction;
- 3D objects.
Here is a short technical description of ARéVi.
ARéVi is distributed under the LGPL license.
Starting Points
- The Screen shots page gives a sample of some ARéVi applications.
- The Downloads page, with the ubuntu packages for ARéVi and a source tarball.
- The Documentation page, with a tutorial by Ronan Billon. The tutorial is in French, we are looking for someone to translate it.
- http://groups.google.fr/group/arevi-user is a good place to ask questions.
Around ARéVi
ARéVi was originally developed by Fabrice Harrouet, with some contributions from the CERV members (the CERV hosts this website). ARéVi is used at the CERV on a daily base. Training students of the ENIB use it too.
The CERV also uses ARéVi for projects in collaboration with companies such as http://www.cervval.com.
The CERV's projects relative to ARéVi are available at http://svn-cerv.ath.cx/cervProjects.html. One can find:
- HLib, humanoid animation.
- ArWiimote, ArSpaceMouseUSB, for those input devices.
- ArPyC, an ARéVi/Python wrapper.
- ArPhysics, to add a mechanical behavior to the objects.
- ...
Future
For the future, here is a wishlist. Feel free to add topics, but this is only a wish list.
How to contribute ?
You can contribute as a programmer, by writing some documentation (or translating it to English) or with a simple user feedback. In all those cases , use http://groups.google.fr/group/arevi-user to ak questions.
