Rendering Systems for Virtual Reality Applications

The thesis is about the systems which are needed to produce usable VR systems. This ranges from the structure of the software libraries down to the details of the rendering hardware.

The research was carried out while the author was a member of The Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG)..

The following files contain the text of the whole thesis and most line diagrams. All files are in PostScript format, and have been produced by FrameMaker 3. The large bitmaps have not been included because of their size.

• Title Page.
  
• Table of Contents.
  
• List of Figures
  
• List of Tables
  
• Abstract
  
• Decleration & Copyright (Please read!!)
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• A few words about me
  
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  
• Chapter 2: IO devices
  
• Chapter 3: Conventional Rendering techniques
  
• Chapter 4: Specialist requirements of VR rendering systems
  
• Chapter 5: Rendering complexity
  
• Chapter 6: A survey of existing systems
  
• Chapter 7: Conclusions
  
• References
  
• Appendix A: Other considerations and approaches
  
• Appendix B: Tools used during the course of the research