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CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Evolution of L-systems for compact virtual landscape generation
An L-system or Lindenmayer system consists of a grammar and an interpreter. The grammar contains an axiom, usually a short string, that the grammar expands into a long, complex st...
Daniel A. Ashlock, Stephen P. Gent, Kenneth Mark B...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Fracture Mechanics Approach to Haptic Synthesis of Tissue Cutting with Scissors
An analytical model for cutting of a plate of material with a pair of scissors is presented in terms of concepts of contact and fracture mechanics. The forces of contact between t...
Mohsen Mahvash, Allison M. Okamura
SI3D
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic impostor placement for guaranteed frame rates and low memory requirements
Impostors are image-based primitives commonly used to replace complex geometry in order to reduce the rendering time needed for displaying complex scenes. However, a big problem i...
Stefan Jeschke, Michael Wimmer, Heidrun Schumann, ...
RT
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Real Illumination from Virtual Environments
We introduce a method for actively controlling the illumination in a room so that it is consistent with a virtual world. In combination with a high dynamic range display, the syst...
Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew Trentacoste, Helge Seetzen...
SEMWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ontology Based Analysis of Experimental Data
We address the problem of linking observations from reality to a semantic web based knowledge base. Concepts in the biological domain are increasingly being formalized through ont...
Andrea Splendiani