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CEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Evolution of L-systems for compact virtual landscape generation
An L-system or Lindenmayer system consists of a grammar and an interpreter. The grammar contains an axiom, usually a short string, that the grammar expands into a long, complex st...
Daniel A. Ashlock, Stephen P. Gent, Kenneth Mark B...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Fracture Mechanics Approach to Haptic Synthesis of Tissue Cutting with Scissors
An analytical model for cutting of a plate of material with a pair of scissors is presented in terms of concepts of contact and fracture mechanics. The forces of contact between t...
Mohsen Mahvash, Allison M. Okamura
SI3D
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Automatic impostor placement for guaranteed frame rates and low memory requirements
Impostors are image-based primitives commonly used to replace complex geometry in order to reduce the rendering time needed for displaying complex scenes. However, a big problem i...
Stefan Jeschke, Michael Wimmer, Heidrun Schumann, ...
RT
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Real Illumination from Virtual Environments
We introduce a method for actively controlling the illumination in a room so that it is consistent with a virtual world. In combination with a high dynamic range display, the syst...
Abhijeet Ghosh, Matthew Trentacoste, Helge Seetzen...
SEMWEB
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Ontology Based Analysis of Experimental Data
We address the problem of linking observations from reality to a semantic web based knowledge base. Concepts in the biological domain are increasingly being formalized through ont...
Andrea Splendiani