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GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1996
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Awareness Through Fisheye Views in Relaxed-WYSIWIS Groupware
Desktop conferencing systems are now shifting from strict view-sharing towards relaxed "what-you-see-iswhat-I-see" interfaces, where distributed participants in a real t...
Saul Greenberg, Carl Gutwin, Andy Cockburn
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Multiresolution BSP Trees Applied to Terrain, Transparency, and General Objects
We present a system for incorporating multiple level of detail (LOD) models of 3D objects within a single hierarchical data structure. This system was designed for a scientific vi...
Charles Wiley, A. T. Campbell III, Stephen A. Szyg...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Probability Trees
Michael D. McCool, Peter K. Harwood
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Multiresolution Rendering of Complex Botanical Scenes
This paper presents a system for rendering very large collections of randomly parameterized plants while generating manageable scene geometries for rendering. A given botanical de...
Dana Marshall, Donald S. Fussell, A. T. Campbell I...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
The Immediate Usability of Graffiti
We present four empirical measures of the immediate usability of Graffiti, a character recognizer for pen-based computers. Since speed is fully controlled by the user, we measured...
I. Scott MacKenzie, Shawn X. Zhang
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
A Heuristic Method for Generating 2D CSG Trees from Bitmaps
This paper presents a method for generating compact and effective constructive-solid-geometry (CSG) object representations from 2D bitmap representations. The method consists of t...
Sarah F. Frisken Gibson, Joe Marks, Danielle Feinb...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
An Interactive Fur Modeling Technique
A technique for modeling fur, but not long human hair, quickly, using the facilitiesof common graphics workstations is described. The user selects a variety of parameters to achie...
Allen Van Gelder, Jane Wilhelms
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization
This paper describes a minimallyimmersive threedimensional volumetric interactive information visualizationsystem formanagementand analysis ofdocument corpora. The system, SFA, us...
David S. Ebert, Christopher D. Shaw, Amen Zwa, Eth...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1997
13 years 5 months ago
A Modelling Method and User Interface for Creating Plants
We present a modelling method and graphical user interface for the creation of natural branching structures such as plants. Structural and geometric information is encapsulated in...
Oliver Deussen, Bernd Lintermann