Using a floating origin to improve fidelity and performance of large, distributed virtual worlds

Proceedings - 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds, CW 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-270

  Thorne, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOATING ORIGIN (FO); SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; SPATIAL JITTER (SJ);

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745122594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CW.2005.94     Document Type: Conference Paper

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