COLLABORATION ON SCENE GRAPH BASED 3D DATA

Lorenz Ammon, Hanspeter Bieri

2006

Abstract

Professional 3D digital content creation tools, like Alias Maya or discreet 3ds max, offer only limited support for a team of artists to work on a 3D model collaboratively. We present a scene graph repository system that enables fine-grained collaboration on scenes built using standard 3D DCC tools by applying the concept of collaborative versions to a general attributed scene graph. Artists can work on the same scene in parallel without locking out each other. The artists’ changes to a scene are regularly merged to ensure that all artists can see each others progress and collaborate on current data. We introduce the concept of indirect changes and indirect conflicts to systematically inspect the effects that collaborative changes have on a scene. Inspecting indirect conflicts helps maintaining scene consistency by systematically looking for inconsistencies at the right places.

References

  1. Alienbrain (2005). Alienbrain studio 7. http://www. alienbrain.com.
  2. Barnes, M. (2005). Collada, digital asset schema release 1.3.0, specification. http://www.collada.org.
  3. Cobéna, G., Abiteboul, S., and Marian, A. (2002). Detecting changes in XML documents. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'02), pages 41-52. IEEE.
  4. Collison, A. and Bieri, H. (2000). A component-based system for storing and manipulating graphics objects of different representations. In The Visual Computer, volume 16(6), pages 322-338. Springer.
  5. Galli, R. and Luo, Y. (2000). Mu3d: a causal consistency protocol for a collaborative vrml editor. In VRML 7800: Proceedings of the fifth symposium on virtual reality modeling language (Web3D-VRML), pages 53-62, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.
  6. Hesina, G., Schmalstieg, D., Fuhrmann, A. L., and Purgathofer, W. (1999). Distributed open inventor: a practical approach to distributed 3d graphics. In VRST, pages 74-81.
  7. Kiesel, N., Schürr, A., and Westfechtel, B. (1995). Gras, a graph-oriented (software) engineering database system. Information Systems, 20(1):21-51.
  8. Magnusson, B., Asklund, U., and Minör, S. (1993). Finegrained revision control for collaborative software development. In Proceedings of the first ACM symposium on Foundations of software engineering, pages 33-41. ACM Press.
  9. Naef, M., Lamboray, E., Staadt, O., and Gross, M. (2003). The blue-c distributed scene graph. In Proceedings of the IPT/EGVE Workshop 2003, pages 125-133.
  10. Wieczerzycki, W. and Rykowski, J. (1994). Version support for cad/case databases. In Proceedings East/West Database Workshop, Workshops in Computing, pages 249-260.
  11. Zaugg, M. (2005). Generische Gebäudemodellierung in Maya. Master Thesis, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern.
  12. Zeleznik, B., Holden, L., Capps, M., Abrams, H., and Miller, T. (2000). Scene-graph-as-bus: Collaboration between heterogeneous stand-alone 3-D graphical applications. In Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2000), volume 19(3).
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Ammon L. and Bieri H. (2006). COLLABORATION ON SCENE GRAPH BASED 3D DATA . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 972-8865-39-2, pages 259-266. DOI: 10.5220/0001357602590266


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp06,
author={Lorenz Ammon and Hanspeter Bieri},
title={COLLABORATION ON SCENE GRAPH BASED 3D DATA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={259-266},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001357602590266},
isbn={972-8865-39-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - COLLABORATION ON SCENE GRAPH BASED 3D DATA
SN - 972-8865-39-2
AU - Ammon L.
AU - Bieri H.
PY - 2006
SP - 259
EP - 266
DO - 10.5220/0001357602590266