Virtual Worlds : Second International Conference, VW 2000 Paris, France, July 5-7, 2000 Proceedings / edited by Jean-Claude Heudin.

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Book

Contributor:

Heudin, Jean-Claude, editor.

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Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 1834.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1834

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Computer graphics.

Multimedia systems.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Graphics.

Multimedia Information Systems.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Graphics.

Multimedia Information Systems.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 320 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2000.

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Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.

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Summary:

Virtual Worlds 2000 is the second in a series of international scientific conferences on virtual worlds held at the International Institute of Multimedia in Paris La Défense (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci). The term "virtual worlds" generally refers to virtual reality applications or experi ences. We extend the use of these terms to describe experiments that deal with the idea of synthesizing digital worlds on computers. Thus, virtual worlds could be de fined as the study of computer programs that implement digital worlds. Constructing such complex artificial worlds seems to be extremely difficult to do in any sort of complete and realistic manner. Such a new discipline must benefit from a large amount of work in various fields: virtual reality and advanced computer graphics, artificial life and evolutionary computation, simulation of physical systems, and more. Whereas virtual reality has largely concerned itself with the design of 3D immersive graphical spaces, and artificial life with the simulation of living organisms, the field of virtual worlds, is concerned with the synthesis of digital universes considered as wholes, with their own "physical" and "biological" laws.

Contents:

Conferences and Trade Shows in Inhabited Virtual Worlds: A Case Study of Avatars98 and 99

HutchWorld: Lessons Learned A Collaborative Project: Fred Hutchsinson Cancer Research Center and Microsoft Research

Organisation and Visualisation of Tacit Knowledge in Virtual Communities

Integration of Simulation Tools in On-Line Virtual Worlds

Towards Digital Creatures in Real-Time 3D Games

A Framework to Dynamically Manage Distributed Virtual Environments

Using GASP for Collaborative Interaction within 3D Virtual Worlds

Generic 3D Ball Animation Model for Networked Interactive VR Environments

An Overview on Virtual Sets

Creating Emotive Responsive Characters Within Virtual Worlds

Avatar Physics and Genetics

Virtual Living Beings

A Sound Propagation Model for Interagents Communication

Communication and Interaction with Learning Agents in Virtual Soccer

3D Clothes Modeling from Photo Cloned Human Body

Toward Alive Art

In Search of Vital Presence - Evolving Virtual Musics

Birth of a New World Order: IceBorg

A 'Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum)

The World of Framsticks: Simulation, Evolution, Interaction

A 3-D Biomechanical Model of the Salamander

Virtual COTONS®, the Firstborn of the Next Generation of Simulation Model

Basins of Attraction and the Density Classification Problem for Cellular Automata

Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesizer

Virtual Environments for Visually Impaired

VR American Football Simulator with Cylindrical Screen

Augmented Reality Based Input Interface for Wearable Computers

Multi Screen Environment with a Motion Base.

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978-3-540-45016-0

9783540450160

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