Avango

AVANGO is a top-notch software that provides transparent replication of a shared scene graph among the processes involved in a distributed application. This state-of-the-art group communication system ensures the consistency of data even when there are late joining or leaving processes. The product offers a familiar dataflow graph, which is commonly found in modern standalone 3D-application toolkits that can be conveniently extended to the distributed environment.

The software industry is awash with several toolkits for virtual environment (VE) applications, which gives programmers an interface to construct complex geometry in a scene graph and render it. AVANGO's framework offers programmers access to the shared scene graph from all processes forming the distributed application, and each process has a local copy of the scene graph and contained state information.

AVANGO's object-oriented framework allows software developers to create class-specific applications that inherit the features of the distribution property. Additionally, the shared scene graph is equipped with a distributed dataflow graph that provides similar evaluation characteristics as in standalone applications, supporting the development of distributed interactive applications.

Unlike similar systems, such as Repo-3D, AVANGO's focus is on high-end real-time virtual environments like CAVEs and Workbenches, and development is based on SGI Performer. With AVANGO, we offer a toolkit that combines a familiar programming model found in standalone toolkits, with built-in support for data distribution that is almost transparent to the application developer. Overall, AVANGO is an excellent software that offers programmers an all-encompassing framework to build complex distributed applications with ease.