<table bgColor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" rowspan="2" cellpadding="10"> <a href="index.html"><img border="0" alt="DIS Gimbals Example with F18" title="DIS Gimbals Example with F18" hspace="10" src="GimbalsExampleF18Inset.png" width="270" height="126" align="left"/></a> </td> <td> <p> Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real-time platform-level gaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those involved in space exploration and medicine. </p> <p> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation" target="_blank">IEEE Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)</a> networking-protocol standard can be used for synchronized virtual environments and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live,_virtual,_and_constructive" target="_blank">Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC)</a> simulations. Ongoing development work and <a href="http://www.sisostds.org/DigitalLibrary.aspx?EntryId=29288" target="_blank">DIS details</a> are maintained by the <a href="http://www.sisostds.org/" target="_blank">Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO)</a> which includes the <a href="http://www.sisostds.org/StandardsActivities/DevelopmentGroups/DISPDGDistributedInteractiveSimulationExten.aspx" target="_blank">DIS Product Development Group (PDG)</a>. </p> <p> X3D nodes that include DIS support are X3D nodes that include DIS support are <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#EspduTransform" target="_blank">EspduTransform</a>, <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#DISEntityManager" target="_blank">DISEntityManager</a>, <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#DISEntityTypeMapping" target="_blank">DISEntityTypeMapping</a>, <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#ReceiverPdu" target="_blank">ReceiverPdu</a>, <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#SignalPdu" target="_blank">SignalPdu</a> and <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#TransmitterPdu" target="_blank">TransmitterPdu</a>. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"> A supporting <a href="https://x3dGraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForAdvancedModeling" target="X3dChapterSlideset">DIS chapter slideset</a> is available online via <a href="https://x3dGraphics.com">X3dGraphics.com</a>. Related work includes <a href="https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#DIS" target="Open-DIS">X3D-Edit DIS Support</a> as well as the <a href="http://open-dis.sourceforge.net/Open-DIS.html" target="Open-DIS">Open-DIS software library</a>, which provides open-source implementations of DIS in C++, C#, Java, Objective-C and JavaScript. </p> <p> <i>Advisory:</i> the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) component in not widely supported in X3D. Further work is welcome. </p>