Networked graphics
The ubiquity of access to the Internet and the
World Wide Web has opened new doors of communication
and exchange, even as it has demonstrated
the need to reexamine and evolve our
current methods. From new designs for transfer
protocols to real-time algorithms and data compression,
researchers are responding to the challenges
presented by user expectations for instant
access. New areas of application will need to overcome
latency issues and enable the transfer of
simple data models from which complexity can
be reconstructed at the receiving end. For example,
the receiver’s system might construct a holographic
3D human figure texture-mapped with
the sender’s image. A camera at the sender’s end
might capture motion and expression, cull the
data, and transmit updates in real time.