An Architecture for Java-Based Real-Time Distributed Visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 570-579

  Mahovsky, Jeffrey ^a   Benedicenti, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Fractals; Java; Ray tracing; Real time rendering; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED VISUALIZATION; PIXELS; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242663225     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2003.1260749     Document Type: Article

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