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FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Perspectives, frame rates and resolutions: it's all in the game
Hardware and platform limitations restrict the display settings for most computer games, forcing a tradeoff between frame rate and resolution to achieve acceptable performance. Pr...
Mark Claypool, Kajal T. Claypool
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Indicative routes for path planning and crowd simulation
An important challenge in virtual environment applications is to steer virtual characters through complex and dynamic worlds. The characters should be able to plan their paths and...
Ioannis Karamouzas, Roland Geraerts, Mark H. Overm...
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Relating cognitive models of computer games to user evaluations of entertainment
As the interactive entertainment industry matures, a better understanding of what makes software entertaining is needed. A natural starting point is the application of traditional...
Paolo Piselli, Mark Claypool, James Doyle
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Emphasizing soft skills and team development in an educational digital game design course
Engineering education has evolved from providing students solely with technical skills to providing them with courses that provide students with the non-technical “soft skills...
Quincy Brown, Frank J. Lee, Suzanne Alejandre
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Characterizing and understanding game reviews
Game reviews are one of the primary forms of videogame journalism and are also one of the prevalent forms of discourse about games. How can we characterize them and better underst...
José Pablo Zagal, Amanda Ladd, Terris Johns...
AFRIGRAPH
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Virtual relighting of a Roman statue head from Herculaneum: a case study
High-fidelity computer graphics offer the possibility for archaeologists to put excavated cultural heritage artefacts virtually back into their original setting and illumination ...
Jassim Happa, Mark Williams, Glen Turley, Graeme E...
AFRIGRAPH
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Revisiting district six: a case study of digital heritage reconstruction from archival photographs
This paper investigates the digital reconstruction of destroyed buildings from small sets of old, uncalibrated photographs. The application domain is the heritage preservation of ...
Christopher de Kadt, James E. Gain, Patrick Marais
SG
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Rendering Method for 3D Origami Models Using Face Overlapping Relations
When we construct a model of origami (a model of a folded sheet of paper) in a computer, it is usual to represent the model as a set of polygons having zero thickness. One of the t...
Yohsuke Furuta, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui
SG
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Feature-Driven Volume Fairing
Abstract. Volume datasets have been a primary representation for scientific visualization with the advent of rendering algorithms such as marching cubes and ray casting. Nonethele...
Shigeo Takahashi, Jun Kobayashi, Issei Fujishiro
SG
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Pie Slider: Combining Advantages of the Real and the Virtual Space
Abstract. The Pie Segment Slider is a novel parameter control interface combining the advantages of tangible input with the customizability of a graphical interface representation....
Alexander Kulik, André Kunert, Christopher ...