Dynamic intelligent lighting for directing visual attention in interactive 3-D scenes

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-153

  El Nasr, Magy Seif ^a   Vasilakos, Athanasios ^b,c,d   Rao, Chinmay ^e   Zupko, Joseph ^f  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^e The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game lighting; Graphics; Intelligent lighting; Lighting design; Visual attention in games

Indexed keywords

GAME LIGHTING; GRAPHICS; INTELLIGENT LIGHTING; LIGHTING DESIGN; VISUAL ATTENTION IN GAMES;

DESIGN; GAME THEORY; LIGHTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77955687659     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2009.2024532     Document Type: Article

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