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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Introducing computer science through animation and virtual worlds
We describe a course for non-majors that teaches computer science concepts and programming by creating simple animations and building 2D and 3D virtual worlds. Students work with ...
Susan H. Rodger
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Using a Floating Origin to Improve Fidelity and Performance of Large, Distributed Virtual Worlds
Large Virtual Worlds (VWs) are increasingly common in the computer graphics areas of simulation, games, geospatial or scientific visualisation. In such VWs, simulated motion of th...
Chris Thorne
MHCI
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Rolling, rotating and imagining in a virtual mobile world
New mobile devices can be difficult to use because they give users access to powerful computing devices through small interfaces, which typically have limited input facilities. On...
Lynne Baillie, Harald Kunczier, Hermann Anegg
VW
1998
Springer
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14 years 29 days ago
Real Face Communication in a Virtual World
This paper describes an efficient method to make an individual face for animation from several possible inputs and how to use this result for a realistic talking head communication...
Won-Sook Lee, Elwin Lee, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
CONEXT
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Shortcuts in a virtual world
We consider the case of a virtual world of peers that are organized in an overlay built by Delaunay Triangulation. Application layer routing is used to determine the path taken in...
Moritz Steiner, Ernst W. Biersack