BrickNet: sharing object behaviors on the Net

Author

Singh, Gurminder ; Serra, Luis ; Png, Willie ; Wong, Audrey ; Ng, Hern

Author_Institution

Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

1995

fDate

11-15 Mar 1995

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

25

Abstract

In a majority of networked virtual worlds, object sharing is limited to object geometries only. The BrickNet toolkit extends the sharing of objects to include dynamic object behaviors. This is achieved by combining a structured organizational paradigm for virtual worlds with an interpreted language. Sharing in virtual worlds is handled by transferring the program code that builds the structure and executes the behavior. The range of behaviors that can be shared in BrickNet include simple behaviors, virtual world dependent behaviors, reactive behaviors and capability-based behaviors

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; object-oriented programming; virtual reality; BrickNet toolkit; Internet; capability-based behaviors; client-server computing; dynamic object behaviors; interpreted language; networked virtual worlds; object behaviour sharing; object geometries; object management; object sharing; program code transfer; reactive behaviors; structured organizational paradigm; virtual reality; Animation; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer network management; Computer networks; File servers; Geometry; Network servers; Object oriented modeling; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, 1995. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Research Triangle Park, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7084-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VRAIS.1995.512475

Filename

512475