Distributed 3D rendering system in a multi-agent platform

Proceedings of the Mexican International Conference on Computer Science

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 168-175

  Rangel Kuoppa, R ^a,b   Aviles Cruz C ^a   Mould, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Drives; Multiagent systems; Rendering (computer graphics); Virtual environment; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DRIVES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL LIBRARIES; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; MULTI-AGENT PLATFORMS; OBJECT MOVEMENTS; REMOTE COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL 3D ENVIRONMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 74949085252     PISSN: 15504069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ENC.2003.1232891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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