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

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

19-21 Oct. 1993

Firstpage

181

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1993.319958

Filename

319958