Visualization and simulation of 3D artificial neural structures generated by L-system

Virtual Reality

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-129

  Coelho, Regina Célia ^a   Calonego Jr , Nivaldi ^b   Consularo, Luís Augusto ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas   (Brazil)

^c TSE Tribunal Superior Eleitoral STI/CLOGI/SEAD ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Collaborative environments; L system; Neural growth; Neural simulation; Stochastic L system; Virtual reality environment

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; L-SYSTEMS; NEURAL GROWTH; NEURAL SIMULATIONS; STOCHASTIC L-SYSTEM; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952876253     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0123-4     Document Type: Article

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