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The document proposes the development of an educational 3D tool called EDU3D to teach traffic rules to pedestrians and drivers. It will have two parts: 1) an educational guide to teach general traffic rules through 3D animations and 2) a game-like test to assess the user's knowledge of traffic rules in different situations. The tool will provide a realistic simulation of traffic environments using a game engine. It aims to make learning traffic rules more engaging than textbooks by simulating real traffic scenarios. The document discusses researching existing traffic simulation software and identifying features to include in EDU3D, such as different road types, seasons, viewing angles, and performance feedback.

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Software Project Proposal Report

The document proposes the development of an educational 3D tool called EDU3D to teach traffic rules to pedestrians and drivers. It will have two parts: 1) an educational guide to teach general traffic rules through 3D animations and 2) a game-like test to assess the user's knowledge of traffic rules in different situations. The tool will provide a realistic simulation of traffic environments using a game engine. It aims to make learning traffic rules more engaging than textbooks by simulating real traffic scenarios. The document discusses researching existing traffic simulation software and identifying features to include in EDU3D, such as different road types, seasons, viewing angles, and performance feedback.

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CODESCHBEKE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

CENG 491

SENIOR PROJECT

PROPOSAL REPORT

FALL 2005

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PROJECT TOPIC: 3D Educational Tool (EDU3D)
GROUP NAME: CodeSchbeke Software Solutions (C2S)
GROUP MEMBERS:
N ame StudentID e − mail
Sıla ARSLAN 1347129 [email protected]
Çaǧla OKUTAN 1347764 [email protected]
Hatice Kevser SÖNMEZ 1347905 [email protected]
Bahar PAMUK 1347848 [email protected]
Ebru DOǦAN 1297720 [email protected]

Table 1 - Group Members

1 Roles & Responsibilities


Project leader provides the communication among the group members and co-
ordinates the group activities. She is also responsible for the accomplishment of the
separate tasks given to group members.
Meeting manager is responsible for the arrangement of the meeting dates and
times. She presides over the meeting that is; she says the last word and makes the
conclusion of the meeting. She is also responsible for following the deadlines.
Documentation and Configuration manager is responsible for taking minutes
during the meeting and writing the taken decisions and things to be done until the
next meeting on to the minute book. She is also responsible for management of
versioning of the documentation.
Technical manager is responsible for the technical issues like the web site and
its update also leads the implementation of the project.
Criticizer will help us to remind for the possible problems that may arise during
the implementation due to a taken decision.
The roles and responsibilities are interchangeable among group members.
Project Leader Sıla ARSLAN
Meeting Manager Ebru DOǦAN
Documentation&Configuration Manager Hatice Kevser SÖNMEZ
Technical Manager Bahar PAMUK
Criticizer Çaǧla OKUTAN

Table 2 - Roles & Responsibilities

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2 Project Scope
Although the importance of traffic rules is very vital for human being, the ed-
ucation of people about this concept is insufficient in our country. Most of the
accidents are originated from not obeying or not being aware of the importance of
traffic rules. Generally people learn the traffic rules when they involve in the traffic
and consequently this may cause some inevitable results. By this tool which at-
tracts very large variety of people, it will be possible for them not only to test their
knowledge about traffic rules but also practicing what have been learned or start
learning from the very beginning.
In this project, we aim to develop an education tool which is intended to teach
the traffic rules for the pedestrians and drivers, with 3D animation using computer
graphics. The tool will be composed of basically two parts: the first part is an
education guide for users to gain knowledge about general traffic rules and the
second part is a game-like test in which the user’s ability is graded according to
the actions she takes in certain traffic cases. The tool presents different tests for
pedestrians and drivers. The users will find the chance of learning traffic rules not
from boring books but from much more entertaining and exciting computer program
with the joy of 3D graphics where users will feel like finding themselves in the real
situations. This tool may be used by the trainees in driver license courses and any
of the people who are interested in learning traffic rules.

3 Research of Market
During our decision period on topic of the project, we had two ideas in mind as
a topic. First one was teaching Turkish Sign Language(TID) to the literate people
and the other one was teaching traffic rules to drivers and pedestrians. We made
lots of researches on both. While searching the former one, we found out that the
project would be limited with animation of TID letters and words. To go further in
the project, we thought of animating TID sentences from a user-entered text but the
grammar of TID is still a research topic. Since the project would turn to a natural
language processing(NLP) project we concentrated on the latter one.
We found lots of studies about traffic and found demos of different products.
There are tools most of which are about simulation that aim to teach driving and
traffic rules. We affected by the ones having special and detailed environment and
got in contact with their developers via e-mail asking for the information about
their technology behind their work. After the feedback we took from that experts in
the market[1] and interview with Veysi şler[2], we decided to use a game engine to
provide the same realistic effect. The game engines are used extensively in graphic

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projects e.g. in game development and they empower the developers to be more
flexible and creative. Up to now we considered to use Renderware Studio or 3D
Studio Max. But our researches about their features are continuing. Below are the
sites that we are inspired most:

• Traffic Demo by Newlands & Company, Inc. [3]


The company provides high-quality illustration, animation, photography, video
and multimedia presentation services for architecture, transportation, and ur-
ban design. We get the information about their technology via e-mail and here
is quote from the mail:

We do most of our work using 3D Studio Max (7.5). We have


developed a number of custom scripts for generating traffic and man-
aging cars using Max’s scripting language MaxScript. We have also
developed import routines in MaxScript to bring traffic data from
traffic simulation software such as Vissim and Synchro. These ap-
plications allow traffic engineers to develop detailed models of traffic
networks with signals and transit interactions and to run simulations
in real-time. In Vissim, you can watch traffic jams develop on-screen
in 2D or 3D and adjust the parameters to optimize the simulation.
Vissim can export an ASCII file that lists the XYZ position of every
vehicle in the simulation any time interval we choose. We import
that to 3D Studio and run a physics simulation on each vehicle to
get proper turning and then assign 3D vehicle models from our li-
brary.
Reproducing the traffic simulation in an animation package allows
us to fix errors in the simulation and to employ much more sophisti-
cated modeling, animation and rendering techniques than we could
use in a real-time application.
Most recently, we have been using a global illumination renderer,
VRay to improve the realism of our traffic animations and we have
also begun to add animated 3D characters. The need for realism
varies with the application.
A traffic simulation illustrating the operation of an intersection may
not require a detailed context model or advanced rendering tech-
niques, as the point is merely to show how the intersection works -
not how it looks. However, most of the projects that we work on
combine traffic and transit operations with urban design, so the vi-
sual quality of the simulation can be very important.

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• StreetScenes by Center for Computational Research(CCR) [4]
StreetScenes is a software application developed at CCR that is designed to
take the output of traditional traffic simulation packages and display it in an
existing 3-D environment. This software package inspired us in visualizing the
environment and angle of vision of the user.

Among all the demos of the software packages we examined so far, we did not
encounter with any season and hour options. Also the type of the road was always
the same that is, there are no dirt roads or unimproved road. We will give the
opportunity to choose among these to teach how to behave in these conditions.

4 The Description of the Project


In doing this project our primary aim is not to make a tool for teaching how to
drive, but to teach the traffic rules and how to behave in traffic for both pedestrians
and drivers.
During the training phase, user will have the opportunity to choose any ani-
mation from any category of traffic rules by the help of a user friendly graphical
user interface(GUI). The animations will show the applications of traffic rules by
visualization and animation of different traffic cases such as the following example:

A car approaches a crossroads and stops for letting the car that has higher prece-
dence to pass.

To mention about the test phase, the user will be allowed to travel in differ-
ent roads either as a driver or a pedestrian. The game’s purpose is to start from
a place and reach to another, above a certain score which will decrease with each
faulty action that is breaking of a traffic rule. We plan to have the following features:

• Training in different kinds of roads (e.g. asphalt, dirt road)

• Training in different seasons and different hours of the day

• Supporting different view of angles to the user(either inside or outside the car)

• Supporting the user to watch his overall activity at the end of a test

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References
[1] Donald Newlands
Newlands & Company, Inc.
tel: 503.287.8000 x510
fax: 503.493.3040
cel: 503.349.8203
tf: 866.442.NC3D
740 SW 21st Ave. Suite 330
Portland, OR 97205

[2] Assoc.Prof.Dr. Veysi şler


Office: B208
E-mail: [email protected]
Url:http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/ isler
Phone:+90 312 210 5591
Fax:+90 312 210 1259
Address:Department of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

[3] Newlands & Company, Inc.


http://www.nc3d.com/gallery/movies

[4] Center for Computational Research


http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/content/vizsample.htm

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