Immersive molecular virtual reality based on X3D and web services

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3980 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 212-221

  Gervasi, Osvaldo ^a   Tasso, Sergio ^a   Laganà, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IMMERSIVE DEVICES; IMMERSIVE MOLECULAR VIRTUAL REALITY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745937374     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11751540_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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