Scene Graphs

Scene Graphs
An Introduction

Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department

bernstdh@jmu.edu

Motivation

Some Examples

IRIS/Open Inventor:
- Developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) in the late 1980s
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML):
- Standardized by ISO/IEC in 1997
Extensible 3D (X3D)
- Successor to VRML (since 1999)
Java 3D/JavaFX with 3D
- Java3D was released in 1998 and became a community source project in 2004
- JavaFX with 3D support was released in 2014 (as part of Java 8)

An Example: VRML