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VW
1998
Springer
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Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and the Illusion in Art
Las Meninas is a virtual reality (VR) artwork based on the painting of the same name by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. Created for the CAVE(tm), Las Meninas attempts to establis...
Hisham Bizri, Andrew E. Johnson, Christina Vasilak...
VW
1998
Springer
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Information Flocking: Data Visualisation in Virtual Worlds Using Emergent Behaviours
A novel method of visualising data based upon the schooling behaviour of fish is described. The technique allows the user to see complex correlations between data items through the...
Glenn Proctor, Chris Winter
VW
1998
Springer
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ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned
Arti cial life might come to play important roles for the World Wide Web, both as a source of new algorithmic paradigms and as a source of inspiration for its future development. N...
Luigi Pagliarini, Ariel Dolan, Filippo Menczer, He...
VW
1998
Springer
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A Mixed 2D/3D Interface for Music Spatialization
We propose a system for controlling in real time the localisation of sound sources. The system, called MidiSpace, is a real time spatializer of Midi music. We raise the issue of wh...
François Pachet, Olivier Delerue
VW
1998
Springer
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Webots: Symbiosis Between Virtual and Real Mobile Robots
Abstract. This paper presents Webots: a realistic mobile robot simulator allowing a straightforward transfer to real robots. The simulator currently support the Khepera mobile robo...
Olivier Michel
VW
1998
Springer
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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
VW
1998
Springer
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Growing Virtual Communities in 3D Meeting Spaces
Most existing 3D virtual worlds are basedon a "meeting-space"model, conceived as an extension of textual chat systems. An attractive 3D interface is assumed to be suffici...
Frédéric Kaplan, Angus McIntyre, Chi...
VW
1998
Springer
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Grounding Virtual Worlds in Reality
We suggest in this article a new paradigm for the representation of data, which is best suited for the real-time visualization and sonorisation of complex systems, real or simulat...
Guillaume Hutzler, Bernard Gortais, Alexis Drogoul
VW
1998
Springer
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Animated Impostors for Real-Time Display of Numerous Virtual Humans
Rendering and animating in real-time a multitude of articulated characters presents a real challenge and few hardware systems are up to the task. Up to now little research has bee...
Amaury Aubel, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann