Shared virtual worlds require exchanging shape models over the Internet. Since complex shapes such as VRML objects are often defined with polygonal meshes, the size of models may ...
Epic Games provides a free game level editor with titles based on its Unreal engine. The editor provides a rich set of authoring tools that can be used to create fully interactive...
This paper addresses the problem of streaming progressively compressed 3-D models over lossy networks. Out of all encoded packets that can be transmitted, we intelligently choose ...
Maps of physical environments and geographical areas are pervasively exploited in many human activities. Electronic maps of virtual worlds have been studied and proven to be usefu...
We present an initial report on using our distributed, collaborative grid enabled visualization environment to link SuperComputing 2004 (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) with the Cardiff Scho...