A Collaborative Scene Editor for VRML Worlds
Tainchi Lu, Chuan‐Wen Chiang, Ming‐tang Lin, Chung‐Nan Lee · Computer Graphics Forum · 1998
In this paper, we analyze the requirements for a Web‐based collaborative infrastructure within a virtual world. Additionally, we combine several tools and methodologies to propose a flexible and fluid collaborative environment using Java language to create a VRML scene graph. The proposed prototype aims at four aspects: a shared workspace of scene editor, an active entity composition algorithm in Java, collaborative control in the multi‐user environment, and access control mechanism toward the shared data.