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VRML97 distributed authoring interface

Authors:

Stéphane Louis Dit,

Samuel Degrande,

Christophe Gransart,

Christophe Chaillou,

Grégory SaugisAuthors Info & Claims

Web3D '03: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on 3D Web technology

Pages 135 - ff

https://doi.org/10.1145/636593.636614

Published: 09 March 2003 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of the VRML97 Distributed Authoring Interface (DAI) introduced in Spin-3D, a distributed Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE). Our proposal is a powerful interface, very close to the classical VRML97 External Authoring Interface (EAI). The DAI allows the connection of any external application with the Spin-3D CVE platform. With the Spin-3D CVE platform and the DAI, it will be easy to develop collaborative applications. We use the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) to support distributed authoring applications. Complex collaborative applications and remote interaction introduce new considerations in the design of the DAI: we enhance the standard VRML97 EAI with new interfaces in order to easily traverse the VRML97 scene graph and limit the network overhead introduced by the remote interaction. Moreover, taking advantage of the CORBA middleware, external applications can be written with any programming language for which the OMG de ned an IDL mapping.

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Index Terms

VRML97 distributed authoring interface
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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Web3D '03: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on 3D Web technology

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ISBN:1581136447

DOI:10.1145/636593

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Hetherington RScott JBrutzman DChittaro LPuk R(2004)Adding a fourth dimension to three dimensional virtual spacesProceedings of the ninth international conference on 3D Web technology10.1145/985040.985064(163-172)Online publication date: 5-Apr-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/985040.985064

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