GNU/MAVERIK: a micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a publicly available virtual reality (VR) system, GNU/MAVERIK, which forms one component of a complete 'VR operating system'. We give an overview of the architecture of MAVERIK, and show how it is designed to use application data in an intelligent way, via a simple, yet powerful, callback mechanism which supports an object-oriented framework of classes, objects and methods. Examples are given which illustrate different uses of the system, and typical performance levels.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Other architectures

      • Special purpose systems

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Computer vision representations

        • Hierarchical representations

  • Computer graphics

    • Graphics systems and interfaces

      • Graphics file formats

      • Virtual reality

    • Image manipulation

    • Rendering

    • Shape modeling

• Software and its engineering

  • Software notations and tools

    • Development frameworks and environments

      • Application specific development environments

      • Object oriented frameworks