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Artificial life and virtual reality
- Title
- Artificial life and virtual reality / edited by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann.
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : Wiley, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QA76.9.H85 A785 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv,228 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Creating Artificial Life in Virtual Reality / Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann -- 1. Unpredictability - another word for freedom...and if machines were free? / Guy Kirsch -- 2. Basic Principles of Topology-Based Methods for Simulating Metamorphoses of Natural Objects / Jean Francon and Pascal Lienhardt -- 3. Simulating the Life of Virtual Plants, Fishes and Butterflies / Hansruedi Noser and Daniel Thalmann -- 4. Introduction to Embryonics: Towards Self-Repairing and Self-reproducing Hardware Based on Biological-like Properties / Daniel Mange and Andre Stauffer -- 5. Artificial Consciousness / Igor Aleksander -- 6. Managing entities for an Autonomous Behaviour / Michele Courant, Beat Hirsbrunner and Beat Stoffel -- 7. A Constructivist Approach for Autonomous Agents / Philippe Gaussier and Stephane Zrehen -- 8. Virtual Environments for Simulating Artificial Autonomy / Miguel Rodriguez, Pierre-Jean Erard and Jean-Pierre Muller.
- 9. Body Centered Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments / Mel Slater and Martin Usoh -- 10. Manipulation and Exploration of Virtual Objects / Massimo Bergamasco -- 11. Fundamentals of Auditory Virtual Environment / Hilmar Lehnert -- 12. Using Three-Dimensional Hand-Gesture Recognition as a New 3D Input Technique / Ulrich Broeckl, L. Kettner, A. Klingert and L. Kobbelt -- 13. Realism in Virtual Reality / Peter Astheimer, Fan Dai, Martin Gobel, Rolf Kruse, Stefan Muller and Gabriel Zachmann -- 14. Shared Objects in Private Workspaces: Cooperative Work in Virtual Worlds / Gurminder Singh and Luis Serra.
- ISBN
- 0471951463 :
- LCCN
- 94012672
- OCLC
- 30516754
- ocm30516754
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries