Meaningful real-time graphics workstation performance measurements

We present how graphics workstation performance is currently measured and how performance should be measured in the future. Four levels of graphics system performance measurements are low-level primitives (points and lines), pictures (collections of points and lines), systems (collections of pictures), and applications (collections of systems). The different techniques for measuring performance vary widely depending on the hardware manufacturer, the software programmer, or the article author. This paper discusses performance measurement of a real-time graphics application with emphasis on expressing the measurements in common terms. this thesis was a joint research project. Mark A. Fichten was responsible for the operating area database manipulation and networking. David H. Jennings was responsible for the systems overview and the graphics display specifics. The simulator development history and performance evaluation were developed jointly.http://archive.org/details/meaningfulrealti00fichCaptain, United States ArmyCivilian, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited