SYNCHRONIZING USER INTERACTIONS WITH MULTIPLE PARAMETRIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEB GRAPHICS

Martin Kraus

2009

Abstract

The synchronization of a single user’s interactions with multiple parametrized graphics in a single web page is an important and powerful feature of interactive illustrations. In this work we present an interface to specify this kind of synchronization and its implementation in a Java applet for rendering and interacting with threedimensional web graphics. Our design allows authors of web pages to synchronize the parameters of groups of interactive graphics within a web page by specifying identical text labels for all applets of the same group. Further labels may be specified to synchronize changes of the viewpoints and/or of the magnification. This design allows for multiple, independently synchronized groups of graphics on the same web page as well as any combination of synchronized parameters, viewpoints and magnification factors. Only three additional applet parameters are necessary, which are not restricted by any syntax.

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Kraus M. (2009). SYNCHRONIZING USER INTERACTIONS WITH MULTIPLE PARAMETRIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEB GRAPHICS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-67-8, pages 401-404. DOI: 10.5220/0001773104010404


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp09,
author={Martin Kraus},
title={SYNCHRONIZING USER INTERACTIONS WITH MULTIPLE PARAMETRIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEB GRAPHICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={401-404},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001773104010404},
isbn={978-989-8111-67-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - SYNCHRONIZING USER INTERACTIONS WITH MULTIPLE PARAMETRIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEB GRAPHICS
SN - 978-989-8111-67-8
AU - Kraus M.
PY - 2009
SP - 401
EP - 404
DO - 10.5220/0001773104010404