Object-Oriented and Mixed Programming Paradigms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Overview

   1. Overview

      • Peter Wisskirchen

      Pages 1-3

3. Object-Oriented Design and Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Extensible Image Synthesis

      • Dieter W. Fellner

      Pages 7-21

   3. RayViS — A Visualization System Based on Object-Orientation

      • Alwin Gröne

      Pages 23-32

   4. An Object-Oriented Approach to Curves and Surfaces

      • Philipp Slusallek, Reinhard Klein, Andreas Kolb, Günther Greiner

      Pages 33-44

   5. Object-Oriented Modeling of Graphical Primitives

      • Ekkehard Beier

      Pages 45-63

   6. Gemma: An Open Architecture for Distributed User Interfaces

      • Steve Freeman

      Pages 65-85

   7. Object-Oriented Animation in the REALISM System

      • Ian J. Palmer, Richard L. Grimsdale

      Pages 87-98

   8. Modeling Multimedia-Objects with MME

      • Dennis Dingeldein

      Pages 99-109

4. Programming Paradigms for Graphics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Mixed Programming Paradigms in Computer Graphics

      • Parris K. Egbert, Travis L. Hilton

      Pages 113-123

   3. Talktalk

      • Peter Bouwman, Hans de Bruin

      Pages 125-141

   4. OOCS — Constraints in an Object Oriented Environment

      • Quinton Hoole, Edwin Blake

      Pages 143-158

   5. Event-based.Constraints: coordinate.Satisfaction —> object.State 1

      • Remco C. Veltkamp, Edwin H. Blake

      Pages 159-169

   6. Functional 3D Graphics in C++ — with an Object-Oriented, Multiple Dispatching Implementation

      • Greg Schechter, Conal Elliott, Ricky Yeung, Salim Abi-Ezzi

      Pages 171-193

5. Back Matter

   Pages 195-198

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The area of computer graphics is characterized by rapid evolution. New techniques in hardware and software developments, e. g. , new rendering methods, have led to new ap­ plications and broader acceptance of graphics in fields such as scientific visualization, multi-media applications, computer aided design, and virtual reality systems. The evolving functionality and the growing complexity of graphics algorithms and sys­ tems make it more difficult for the application programmer to take full advantage of these systems. Conventional programming methods are no longer suited to manage the increasing complexity, so new programming paradigms and system architectures are re­ quired. One important step in this direction is the introduction and use of object-oriented methods. Intuition teils us that visible graphical entities are objects, and experience has indeed shown that object-oriented software techniques are quite useful for graphics. The expressiveness of object-oriented languages compared to pure procedurallanguages gives the graphics application programmer much better support when transforming his mental intentions into computer code. Moreover, object-oriented software development is a, weil founded technology, allowing software to be built from reusable and extensible compo­ nents. This book contains selected, reviewed and thoroughly revised vers ions of papers submit­ ted to and presented at the Fourth Eurographies Workshops on Object-Oriented Graphics, held on May 9-11, 1994 in Sintra, Portugal.

• Animation
• Computer graphics
• Computergraphik
• Graphische Programmiersysteme
• algorithm
• algorithms
• architecture
• complexity
• multimedia
• multimedia systems
• object-oriented graphics libraries
• object-oriented programming
• objektorientierte Graphikbiblio

• German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Sankt Augustin, Germany

  Peter Wisskirchen

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