Ribbon networks for modeling navigable paths of autonomous agents in virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 331-342

  Willemsen, Peter ^a,b,d   Kearney, Joseph K ^a,c,e,f   Wang, Hongling ^c,g  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^f E11 SSH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities; Model development; Specialized application language; Virtual reality; Visual

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL, AUGMENTED, AND VIRTUAL REALITIES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIALIZED APPLICATION LANGUAGE; VISUAL;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSPORTATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33645158395     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.53     Document Type: Article

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