Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
In this paper we present a system that facilitates virtual museum development and usage. The system is based on a game engine, ensuring thus minimal cost and good performance, and...
Victor Mateevitsi, Michael Sfakianos, George Lepou...
Force feedback coupled with visual display allows people to interact intuitively with complex virtual environments. For this synergy of haptics and graphics to flourish, however, ...
Diego C. Ruspini, Krasimir Kolarov, Oussama Khatib
The creation process of technical documentation is an expensive and time-consuming task especially for complex products. To make this process more cost-efficient computerized supp...
Maps of physical environments and geographical areas are pervasively exploited in many human activities. Electronic maps of virtual worlds have been studied and proven to be usefu...