Network management and virtual reality

This paper presents CyberNet, an interactive 3D visualization tool designed in order to enhance network management. The key consideration of the CyberNet design is to be able to collect, process and visualize large amount of dynamical information. But the aim of the project is to study how 3D may help the user to analyze this information, notably thanks to the use of metaphors and specificity of real-time 3D computer graphics. The collected information is structured and mapped on visual parameters (size, shape, color, etc.) of 3D objects in order to built dynamical metaphoric world where the user may navigate and interact.