The blue-c distributed scene graph

Proceedings of the Workshop on Virtual Environments, EGVE'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 125-132

  Naef, Martin ^a   Lamboray, Edouard ^a   Staadt, Oliver ^b   Gross, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative virtual environments; Distributed graphics; Networked virtual reality; Scene graph

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; CUSTOMIZABLE; DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOCKING MECHANISM; SCENE GRAPH; SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME; VISUAL SIMULATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); SYNCHRONIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84869063577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/769953-769968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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