Title :
The design and implementation of a distributed graphics language
Author :
Zhigeng Pan ; Jiaoying Shi
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of CAD & CG, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
We present a distributed graphics programming language called DGLa, which facilitates the development of distributed graphics application. DGLa is an upward compatible extension of programming language C. Facilities for distributed programming and graphics support are included in it. It supports synchronous and asynchronous communication and provides the programmer with multiple control mechanism for process communication. The graphics support of DGLa is powerful, both sequential graphics library and parallel graphics library are provided. The design consideration and implementation experience are discussed in detail. Application examples are also given.<>
Keywords :
synchronisation; visual languages; DGLa; asynchronous communication; distributed graphics language; distributed programming; graphics support; multiple control mechanism; parallel graphics library; process communication; sequential graphics library; synchronous communication; Communication system control; Computer graphics; Computer languages; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Libraries; Parallel processing; Visualization; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '93. Proceedings. Computer, Communication, Control and Power Engineering.1993 IEEE Region 10 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1233-3
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1993.319958
