Render

description: Render is a SGI Performer application that draws the visual part of this interactive simulation. The running program consists of many Performer processes that are running on the SGI Onyx.

CPU usage: ~300%
Cycle rate: 24Hz

Interface: The Render program is a binary executable that in a cyclic fashion reads graphic object position information from DTK shared memory, and renders the ship, crane, and ocean.

Status: Many parts are completed. The ocean is done. The VR crane ship model massing is completed.

Primary contact/authors: Lance Arsenault, Dennis cafiero, Fernando Das Neves, John Kelso

Much of the work of this part of the system is building VR models. We have constructed a VR ocean that animates the same physical model that is used in the computing of the crane ship motion in LAMP.