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A Collaborative Scene Editor for VRML Worlds
Author(s) -
Lu Tainchi,
Chiang Chuanwen,
Lin Mingtang,
Lee Chungnan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.00253
Subject(s) - vrml , computer science , workspace , java , scene graph , graph , human–computer interaction , world wide web , computer graphics (images) , virtual reality , programming language , artificial intelligence , theoretical computer science , rendering (computer graphics) , robot
In this paper, we analyze the requirements for a Web‐based collaborative infrastructure within a virtual world. Additionally, we combine several tools and methodologies to propose a flexible and fluid collaborative environment using Java language to create a VRML scene graph. The proposed prototype aims at four aspects: a shared workspace of scene editor, an active entity composition algorithm in Java, collaborative control in the multi‐user environment, and access control mechanism toward the shared data.