Canvas3D

Canvas3D :

A High-Performance Graphics Engine for Multimedia and Virtual Reality Applications.

Canvas3D is a toolkit for interactive, platform-independent development of high-performance 3D graphics in multimedia and virtual-reality applications. Canvas3D is an extension package to the Tcl/Tk scripting language. Graphics rendering for the Microsoft Windows environment is implemented over the Direct3D Immediate-mode, a component of the Microsoft DirectX SDK. Canvas3D is designed to develop fast 3D graphics applications for low-end desktop computers. It provides an user-interface for easy, interactive development of graphical environments, such as Games, Virtual Reality Video Conferencing, Virtual Seminar Rooms, etc. Canvas3D can be embedded into X Systems-like GUI as well as scripted to provide near real-time animation. This toolkit is intended to work on any (or without any) hardware accelerator available for graphics support.

Canvas3D Links

• The Canvas3D installation guide [HTML]
• The Canvas3D user manual [HTML]
• The Canvas3D tutorial and examples [HTML] [More HTML]
• The Canvas3D developers guide [HTML]
• Canvas3D FAQ [HTML]
• Known Bugs and Improvements [HTML]
• On Tcl/Tk and DirectX [HTML]

People Working on Canvas3D

Faculty

• Brian Smith

M. Eng Students

• Ankit Patel
  
  

This research is supported by DARPA (contract N00014-95-1-0799), Intel, Xerox, Microsoft, and Kodak

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