Distributed graphics support for virtual environments

被引:11
作者
Pan, ZG [1 ]
Shi, JY [1 ]
Zhang, MM [1 ]
机构
[1] ZHEJIANG UNIV,STATE KEY LAB CAD & CG,HANGZHOU 310027,ZHEJIANG,PEOPLES R CHINA
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D O I
10.1016/0097-8493(95)00125-5
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
The networked workstation system is one of the commonly used Virtual Environment (VE) hardware platforms. In this paper we discuss distributed graphics support for implementation of VE systems and present an experimental environment called DGPSE+. It provides four kinds of consistency control methods: mutual exclusion, centralized controller, sequential ordering, and distributed lock. To meet the real-time requirement of VE systems, DGPSE+ contains a set of parallel graphics rendering algorithms with different computation requirement. A distributed stereoscopic graphics rendering is also included. It can find out idle or near idle workstations to execute the parallel algorithms. DGPSE+ has advantages such as multiple consistency control mechanisms and powerful graphics rendering support capability. (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd
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页码:191 / 197
页数:7
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