An open and scalable architecture for delivering 3D shared visualization services to heterogeneous devices

  • Authors:

  • Gianluca Paravati;Andrea Sanna;Fabrizio Lamberti;Luigi Ciminiera

  • Affiliations:

  • Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Shared visualization environments represent an effective means to enhance collaborative work in engineering and scientific design tasks. The availability of high-speed networks allows researchers to work together from geographically distributed locations, and mobile devices are able to carry out ubiquitous 3D visualization tasks through wireless network connections. This paper presents a scalable architecture for the delivery of shared 3D visualization services to heterogeneous terminals ranging from powerful workstations to mobile devices such as PDAs and smart-phones. The framework design allows both desktop and mobile clients to simultaneously visualize the same model by sharing a common view. Remote-rendering servers support effective visualization on thin clients, and a load balancing mechanism provides efficient resource usage. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.