Support of Interactive 3D/4D Presentations by the Very First Ever Made Virtual Laboratories of Antennas

TL;DR

This paper introduces the first virtual laboratories of antennas with interactive 3D/4D presentations, demonstrating their use for better understanding complex antenna concepts and aiding researchers in creating dynamic visualizations for publications.

Contribution

It presents the development of pioneering virtual antenna laboratories utilizing interactive 3D/4D data representations without relying on antenna simulators, supporting dynamic visualization of complex antenna issues.

Findings

Created diverse interactive 3D/4D presentations of antenna data.

Distributed virtual laboratories via the Internet for educational and research purposes.

Enabled better visualization of complex antenna phenomena.

Abstract

Based on the experience we have gained so far, as independent reviewers of Radioengineering journal, we thought that may be proved useful to publicly share with the interested author, especially the young one, some practical implementations of our ideas for the interactive representation of data using 3D/4D movement and animation, in an attempt to motivate and support her/him in the development of similar dynamic presentations, when s/he is looking for a way to locate the stronger aspects of her/his research results in order to prepare a clear, most appropriate for publication, static presentation figure. For this purpose, we selected to demonstrate a number of presentations, from the simplest to the most complicated, concerning well-known antenna issues with rather hard to imagine details, as it happens perhaps in cases involving Spherical Coordinates and Polarization, which we created to enrich the very first ever made Virtual Laboratories of Antennas, that we distribute over the Open Internet through our website Virtual Antennas. These presentations were developed in a general way, without using antenna simulators, to handle output text and image data from third-party CAS Computer Algebra Systems, such as the Mathematica commercial software we use or the Maxima FLOSS we track its evolution.