Real-time generation of populated virtual cities

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-164

  Da Silveira Jr , Luiz Gonzaga ^a   Musse, Soraia Raupp ^a  

^a Unisinos PIPCA CROMOSLab ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

City modeling; Crowd simulation; Polygon partitioning and real time visualization; Terrain modeling; Virtual life simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

POLYGON PARTITIONING; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; TERRAIN MODELING; VIRTUAL LIFE SIMULATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547471572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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