Employing dynamic transparency for 3D occlusion management: Design issues and evaluation

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

Volumn 4662 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 532-545

  Elmqvist, Niklas ^a   Assarsson, Ulf ^a   Tsigas, Philippas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES; TRANSPARENCY;

DYNAMIC TRANSPARENCY; MODERN PROGRAMMABLE SHADERS; OCCLUSION MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTUAL TASKS; X RAY VISION; 3-D ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN ISSUES; PROGRAMMABLE SHADERS; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIEWPOINT CONTROL; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 38049173964     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74796-3_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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