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Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization
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Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni, Michael Barlow
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
848 pages
19h 59m
English
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Grouping Scene Graph Elements

So far, we have only worked with BranchGroup objects, but—as mentioned previously—six subclasses of the Group node can be used to achieve different organization/functional groupings. We examine these other subclasses of Group here.

TransformGroup

Although the TransformGroup is not listed among the mandatory objects in any Java 3D program, it is effectively mandatory in the sense that spatial transformation is at the heart of 3D graphics, and TransformGroups are the mechanism by which spatial transformations are made in Java 3D.

If we wanted to add a second box to our simple scene in Listing 11.1, we could add the following lines to the createScene() method:

 Public BranchGroup createScene() { . . . // Make a second ...
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