filename     : p_Nae03b.pdf
entry        : abstract
pages        : 275-276
year         : 2003
title        : The blue-c Distributed Scene Graph
author       : Martin Naef, Edouard Lamboray, Oliver Staadt, Markus Gross
booktitle    : Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003
editor       : Jim Chen, Bernd Froehlich, Bowen Loftin, Ulrich Neumann, Haruo Takemura
publisher    : IEEE Computer Society Press
language     : english
month        : March
keywords     : Distributed graphics, scene graph, collaborative virtual environments, networked virtual reality
abstract     : In this paper we present a distributed scene graph architecture for use in the blue-c, a novel collaborative immersive virtual environment. We extend the widely used OpenGL Performer toolkit to provide a distributed scene graph maintaining full synchronization down to vertex and texel level. We propose a synchronization scheme including customizable, relaxed locking mechanisms. We demonstrate the functionality of our toolkit with two prototype applications in our high-performance virtual reality and visual simulation environment.