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VW
2000
Springer
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A 'Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum)
Architecture experience of order and hierarchies in spatial event plays an important role in virtual environments notion of `presence'. Architecture monument urbane definition...
Bernardo Uribe Mendoza, Rodolfo Ramirez, Neslson C...
VW
2000
Springer
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The World of Framsticks: Simulation, Evolution, Interaction
A three-dimensional virtual world simulation is described, where evolution takes place and it is possible to investigate behaviors of creatures in real-time. Bodies of these creatu...
Maciej Komosinski
VW
2000
Springer
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A 3-D Biomechanical Model of the Salamander
This article describes a 3D biomechanical simulation of a salamander to be used in experiments in computational neuroethology. The physically-based simulation represents the salama...
Auke Jan Ijspeert
VW
2000
Springer
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Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesizer
This paper describes a text-to-audiovisual speech synthesizer system incorporating the head and eye movements. The face is modeled using a set of images of a human subject. Visemes...
Udit Kumar Goyal, Ashish Kapoor, Prem Kalra
VW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework to Dynamically Manage Distributed Virtual Environments
Abstract. In this paper, we present the project Urbi et Orbi, a framework to dynamically manage distributed virtual environments (DVEs). This framework relies on a dedicated script...
Yoann Fabre, Guillaume Pitel, Laurent Soubrevilla,...
VR
2000
IEEE
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Virtual Fekete Point Configurations: A Case Study in Perturbing Complex Systems
Virtual environments have shown great promise as a research tool in science and engineering. In this paper we study a classical problem in mathematics: that of approximating globa...
Robert van Liere, Jurriaan D. Mulder, Jason Frank,...
VRST
1998
ACM
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Image-based object representation by layered impostors
object should be visible which were not visible in any of the images used to represent the object. So far these problems have been addressed by compression schemes [9] and restrict...
Gernot Schaufler
ICMI
2000
Springer
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Jacob - An Animated Instruction Agent in Virtual Reality
Abstract. This paper gives an overview of the Jacob project. This project involves the construction of a 3D virtual environment where an animated human-like agent called Jacob give...
Marc Evers, Anton Nijholt
AFRIGRAPH
2003
ACM
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Accelerating ray shooting through aggressive 5D visibility preprocessing
Adrian Sharpe, Matthew Hampton, Shaun Nirenstein, ...
AFRIGRAPH
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A lightwave 3D plug-in for modeling long hair on virtual humans
Multimedia applications today make use of virtual humans. Generating realistic virtual humans is a challenging problem owing to a number of factors, one being the simulation of re...
Deborah Patrick, Shaun Bangay