M. Kalender, P. B. Panfilov, “Comparative performance study of approaches to generating interactive 3D visualizations”, Informatsionnye Tekhnologii i Vychslitel'nye Sistemy, 2009, Issue 3,Pages <nobr>27

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Comparative performance study of approaches to generating interactive 3D visualizations

M. Kalender^a, P. B. Panfilov^b

^a Yeditepe University, Turkey
^b Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics

Abstract: Results of comparative experimental study on performance of five popular graphics libraries including OpenGL, JOGL, OpenSceneGraph, JavaOSG and Java3D are presented. To allow graphics performance analysis the benchmark programs were designed to be run in several configurations having different scene complexity and virtual environment rendering modes. Recommendations to developers of interactive 3D visualizations are offered based on results of conducted experiments.

Keywords: interactive 3D visualizations, virtual environments, graphics libraries, scene graphs.