3D Display of Earthquake Activity

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3D Display of Earthquake Activity

• Daniel Andrew Stewart
• CIS 4914 Senior Project
• February 21, 2006

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Summary

• Motivation
• Iceland Meteorological Office earthquake site
• 3D representation, depth, and fault lines
• Time and magnitude ranges
• Problem
• 3D and the web
• Solution
• Java3D Libraries

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Project Plan

• Week 1-2 Literature search, Begin overall
  design
• Week 3 GUI design, Paper prototyping
• Week 4-6 GUI Coding
• Week 7 GUI Testing, Control Design
• Week 8 Control Coding, 3D Design
• Week 9-12 3D and Control Coding
• Week 13 Testing and Final report
• Week 14 Final oral presentation

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Literature Sources

• Stefánsson R., G.B. Guðmundsson, and P.
  Halldórsson "The two large earthquakes in the
  South Iceland seismic zone on June 17 and 21,
  2000",http//hraun.vedur.is/ja/skyrslur/June17and2
  1_2000/all.html, Iceland Meteorological Office
  (as-of 21 Feb 2006).
• Anon. Earthquakes-Iceland", http//hraun.vedur.is
  /ja/englishweb/, Iceland Meteorological Office
  (as-of 21 Feb 2006).
• Selman, D. Java 3D Programming, Greenwich, CT
  Manning (2002).
• Loy, M., et al. Java Swing, Sebastopol, CA
  OReilly (2003)
• Personal correspondence with D. Dankel,
  January-April 2006.

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Problems and Solutions

• Applets and sizing
• Javascript
• Swing flexibility
• Getting the data
• Different implementations and possibility for
  change
• Separate data file and documentation