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SYNTHESE
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
TOG
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Trees, bushes, and other plants are ubiquitous in urban environments, and realistic models of trees can add a great deal of realism to a digital urban scene. There has been much r...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
Large-scale distributed systems are subject to churn, i.e., continuous arrival, departure and failure of processes. Analysis of protocols under churn requires one to use churn mod...
CVGIP
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
This paper presents a system for rapid editing of highly dynamic motion capture data. At the heart of this system is an optimization algorithm that can transform the captured moti...
TOG
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Clouds play an important role for creating realistic images of outdoor scenes. In order to generate realistic clouds, many methods have been developed for modeling and animating c...