Conceptual design and implementation of a pipeline-based VR-system parallelized by CORBA, and comparison with existing approaches

Proceedings VRCAI 2004 - ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 368-374

  Gerndt, Andreas ^a   Asbach, Mark ^a   Kuhlen, Torsten ^a   Bischof, Christian ^a   Lankes, Stefan ^a   Bemmerl, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CORBA; MPI; Parallelization; Virtual Reality; Visualization Pipeline

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER NODES; OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTS; VISUALIZATION PIPELINES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 10044279332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1044588.1044669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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