A Global Routing Mechanism for Modular VRML-Worlds

Mader, S.

A Global Routing Mechanism for Modular VRML-Worlds

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1999

Authors

Mader, S.

Publisher

Eurographics Association

Abstract

With the increasing complexity of virtual worlds VRML97 reveals its lack of native support for logical modularization of these worlds. Though the inherent mechanisms as PROTO-typing and Inlining allow us to partition our worlds into several files, the restriction to file-limited namespaces makes an event-routing for complex interactions between different modules a rather difficult task. In this paper we present an easy-to-use method for event-based communication across modular VRML scenes. Based on VRML´s event model, this solution goes conform with the VRML97 standard ISO/IEC 14772-1:19971 . In order to show its ability to support the implementation of highly interactive and complex VRML-worlds we demonstrate its application in a current project from the fields of virtual heritage.

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booktitle = {Eurographics 1999 - Short Presentations
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title = {{A Global Routing Mechanism for Modular VRML-Worlds
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author = {Mader, S.
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year = {1999
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publisher = {Eurographics Association
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ISSN = {1017-4656
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DOI = {/10.2312/egs.19991034
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