出版社：The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
摘要：We describe a PC-Cluster utility toolkit (GLUT) to create a scalable and efficient development environment for immersive displays with a PC cluster. The CLUT provides an API set similar to the GLUT, therefore, a high compatibility of source codes in these toolkits was achieved. The communication between PCs based on a message passing interface (MPI) is hidden in the CLUT, and using it, users can create 3-D applications in almost the same procedure as in a desktop environment. Moreover, the CLUT supports various styles of immersive display systems with a simple configuration. We developed some applications with it in three different kinds of immersive display systems and illustrated the characteristics of CLUT applications with an evaluation based on the amount of data transmitted and the complexity of the target 3-D scenes.
