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Development of a Distributed Scene Toolkit Based on Open Inventor
A distributed scene toolkit may be very useful for development of shared virtual environment
applications, for example 3D multiplayer games, because time-sensitive distributed applications
cause programmers many extraordinary consistency problems.
In this thesis we will present the basis of such a toolkit, its design and implementation based
on the popular Open Inventor library.
The core idea is that one computer is the scene server and all others are the clients.
The scene server manages the scene graph and can be used for viewing and modifying the scene
as clients do. The client computers are like replica managers. They hold copies of the server's
scene graph and make all the synchronization work.
The toolkit implements algorithms for maintaining a scene consistency. The Network interface provides a
convenient access to network functions and the whole toolkit should help programmers in the development
of 3D graphics distributed applications.
distributed scene, distributed graphics, distributed virtual environment, computer supported cooperative work, virtual reality, scene graph, Open Inventor
@misc{BUT192480,
author="Jan {Pečiva}",
title="Development of a Distributed Scene Toolkit Based on Open Inventor",
year="2002",
pages="45",
address="Brno",
url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~peciva/DSI/index.php3"
}