Declarative terrain modeling for military training games

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smelik, Ruben M ^a   Tutenel, Tim ^b   De Kraker, Klaas Jan ^a   Bidarra, Rafael ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D TERRAIN MODEL; AIR DEFENSE; COMPLEX MODELING; COMPUTER GAME; GENERATION METHOD; MILITARY TRAINING; SKETCHING INTERFACE; TERRAIN FEATURES; TERRAIN MODEL; TERRAIN MODELING; TRAINING REQUIREMENT; TRAINING TOOLS; USER CONTROL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 78651582083     PISSN: 16877047     EISSN: 16877055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/360458     Document Type: Article

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