This project tackles a major issue for current 3D rendering tehnologies in the browser: limited CPU and GPU resources. Our solution is suited for mobile and low powered devices or embedded graphical systems with limited processing power or for old systems incompatible with the new WebGL technology.
One can easily use our web interface to talk to and receive responses from our custom built http server which processes and renders the requested scenes. The main ideea of the project is to offload all the GPU computation needed by the client to render an object to another server which will perform all the hard-work. When the requested scene is rendered, the memory buffer is sent in a special format accepted by the http protocol to the client which can visualise the results in their own browser.
The website interface will help the user to use the platorm and will provide a minimal number of demo-objects to be rendered. The user will be able to move the rendered scene using the controls for movement and rotation. All the scenes will be displayed in near real time.
The server will provide an http-compatible api for manipulating the scene. The server will also be able to render custom built objects provided by the client through the web interface.
Read the protocol here
- Download release version from here and unzip the files to a folder
- The folder containing the executable must also contain these 3 dlls: freeglut.dll, glew32.dll, glfw3.dll
- Execute 3DServer.exe. Params:
- Optional: pass an argument to overwrite the default 5050 port.
- Optional: pass two arguments to overwrite the default size of the internal OpenGL window context: 300x300
- Type in the address bar of a browser: http://127.0.0.1:5050 if using the default port.
Example: 3DServer.exe 5050 480 480
See a tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCGcTnvR6J4
- Click Launch on the first page of the website
- Click LogIn to register a context on the server
- Click Load Cube or any other option
- Click and drag the object on the canvas to move it
- Press space and drag the object to rotate it
- Achimescu Valentin
- Vilceanu Razvan-Arthur
- Reznicencu Sergiu
- Pirlog Vlad
The backlog is contained here: Backlog
The code tests for the server components: Unit Tests
User Stories can be found here.
The server API for the http protocol is found here
