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CRIWG
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities
The paper describes a further development of the design of a motivational visualization encouraging participation in an online community. The new design overcomes shortcomings in p...
Lingling Sun, Julita Vassileva
SI3D
1999
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Image-based objects
We present a compact, image-based representation for threedimensional objects with complex shapes that can be rendered with correct perspective from arbitrary viewpoints using a l...
Manuel M. Oliveira, Gary Bishop
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
CHI
1994
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure
This paper introduces multitrees, a new type of structure for representing information. Multitrees are a class of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with the unusual property that the...
George W. Furnas, Jeff Zacks
SIAMAM
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Diffeomorphic Surface Flows: A Novel Method of Surface Evolution
We describe a new class of surface flows, diffeomorphic surface flows, induced by restricting diffeomorphic flows of the ambient Euclidean space to a surface. Different from classi...
Sirong Zhang, Laurent Younes, John Zweck, J. Tilak...