Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
We present a refinement and a coarsening (also simplification or decimation) algorithm for the adaptive representation of bivariate functions. The algorithms have proved to be eff...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
This paper describes a robust mechanism for transmitting 3D meshes over the Internet. TCP/IP is an excellent means for reliable transport over the Internet. However, multi-user, r...
This paper presents the second edition of our multicast protocol designed to enable shared v irtual worlds. This secon d release was u nderta ken to prov ide an interaction method...