Demand-driven geometry transmission for distributed virtual environments

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 421-432

  Schmalstieg, Dieter ^a   Gervautz, Michael ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Distributed graphics; Levels of detail; Multi user applications; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GEOMETRY TRANSMISSION; MULTIUSER APPLICATIONS; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; RENDERING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0030247042     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.1530421     Document Type: Article

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