CAVEStudy: An infrastructure for computational steering in virtual reality environments

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 239-246

  Renambot, L ^a   Bal, H E ^a   Germans, D ^a   Spoelder, H J W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytical models; Collaboration; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Data visualization; Mathematics; Supercomputers; Virtual environment; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION; COMMUNICATION LAYERS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL STEERING; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; SOCCER SIMULATION; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CAVESTUDY SYSTEM; CODE GENERATOR; COMPUTATIONAL STEERING; SOCCER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CAVERNSOFT; SOURCE CODE;

EID: 0033712158     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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