Simulink 3D Animation

Viewing and Interacting with 3D Worlds

Simulink 3D Animation provides VRML viewers that display your virtual worlds and record scene data. It also provides Simulink blocks and MATLAB functions for user interaction and virtual prototyping with 3D input devices, including 3D mice and force-feedback joysticks.

VRML Viewers

Simulink 3D Animation includes viewers that let you navigate the virtual world by zooming, panning, moving sideways, and rotating about points of interest known as viewpoints. In the virtual world, you can establish viewpoints that emphasize areas of interest, guide visitors, or observe an object in motion from different positions. During a simulation, you can switch between these viewpoints.

Integrating with MATLAB Handle Graphics

The Simulink 3D Animation viewer integrates with MATLAB figures so that you can combine virtual scenes with MATLAB Handle Graphics^® and multiple views of one or more virtual worlds.

Example of a graphical interface authored with MATLAB Handle Graphics. The screen shows a car suspension test on a race track that combines multiple 3D views (top), including speed data and visualizations of the steering wheel and force triads, with 2D graphics for trend analysis (bottom).