Using games engines for archaeological visualisation: Recreating lost worlds

Proceedings of CGAMES 2007 - 11th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 26-30

  Ch'ng, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Games engine; Vegetation modelling; Virtual heritage; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; ENGINES; HISTORY; VISUALIZATION;

APPLICATION AREA; ARCHAEOLOGY; INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL HERITAGE;

ANIMATION;

EID: 70349964279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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