A new animation approach for visualizing intelligent agent behaviours in a virtual environment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 93-98

  Wen, Zhigang ^a   Mehdi, Q H ^a   Gough, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animation; Application software; Computational modeling; Humans; Intelligent agent; Kinematics; Libraries; Runtime; Virtual environment; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; KINEMATICS; LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

ANIMATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DYNAMIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HUMANS; REAL-TIME 3D GRAPHICS; RUNTIMES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84948651231     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2002.1028761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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