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SI3D
1995
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Surface Modification Tools in a Virtual Environment Interface to a Scanning Probe Microscope
The NanoManipulator system has been expanded from a virtualreality interface for a specific scanning tunneling microscope to include control of atomic force microscopes. The curre...
Mark Finch, Vernon L. Chi, Russell M. Taylor II, M...
VR
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
FARMTASIA: an online game-based learning environment based on the VISOLE pedagogy
Virtual interactive student-oriented learning environment (VISOLE) is a game-based constructivist pedagogical approach that encompasses the creation of an online interactive world ...
Kevin K. F. Cheung, Morris Siu Yung Jong, Fong Lok...
AFRIGRAPH
2001
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Realistic visualisation of the Pompeii frescoes
Three dimensional computer reconstruction provides us with a means of visualising past environments, allowing us a glimpse of the past that might otherwise be difficult to appreci...
Kate Devlin, Alan Chalmers
JVCA
1998
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14 years 9 months ago
Interactive rigid body manipulation with obstacle contacts
The interactive manipulation of rigid objects in virtual reality environments requires an object behaviour which is at least physically plausible to be useful for applications lik...
Matthias Buck, Elmar Schömer
SYNTHESE
2011
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14 years 4 months ago
Modeling reality
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
Christopher Pincock