NPSGDL: An Object Oriented Graphics Description Language for Virtual World Application Support

Abstract

Many virtual world applications today represent the cutting edge in real-time 3D interactive graphics. Virtual world applications must model many complex, often changing, graphical objects. These graphical objects must be modeled both visually and behaviorly. The performance of most applications of this nature is determined by the graphics processing capabilities of the hardware used. An efficient, application independent method for describing and managing graphical objects is essential for rapid prototyping and development of robust virtual world applications. This thesis presents an efficient, flexible and extensible graphics description system, NPSGDL, used in virtual world development at the Naval Postgraduate School. Graphics, Data description language, Object oriented programming, Virtual world modeling, Graphics class library.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA257337

Entities

People

  • Kalin P. Wilson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • High Resolution
  • Interactive Graphics
  • Language
  • Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Low Resolution
  • Product Prototyping
  • Security
  • Software Prototyping
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development