A distributed 3D graphics library

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 361-370

  MacIntyre, Blair ^a   Feiner, Steven ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed shared memory; Distributed virtual environments; Object oriented graphics; Shared data object model

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D GRAPHICS LIBRARIES; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GRAPHICAL STRUCTURES; OBJECT MODEL; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED LIBRARIES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77952390938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/280814.280935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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