Partitioning crowded virtual environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn Part F129026, Issue , 2003, Pages 7-14

  Steed, Anthony ^a   Abou Haidar, Roula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed virtual environments; Multicast groups; Spatial partitioning

Indexed keywords

MULTICASTING;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; K-D TREE; MULTICAST GROUPS; QUAD TREES; REGION GROWING; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL PARTITIONING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84871750321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008653.1008658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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