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Virtual Worlds

First International Conference, VW’98 Paris, France, July 1–3, 1998 Proceedings

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Jean-Claude Heudin

    1. International Institute of Multimedia, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, Paris La Defense Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1434)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Invited Paper

    1. Real Face Communication in a Virtual World

      • Won-Sook Lee, Elwin Lee, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
      Pages 1-13

  3. Virtual Reality (1)

    1. Animated Impostors for Real-Time Display of Numerous Virtual Humans

      • Amaury Aubel, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann
      Pages 14-28

    2. Can We Define Virtual Reality? The M R IC Model

      • Didier Verna, Alain Grumbach
      Pages 29-41

    3. Distortion in Distributed Virtual Environments

      • Matthew D. Ryan, Paul M. Sharkey
      Pages 42-48

    4. VRML Based Behaviour Database Editor

      • John F. Richardson
      Pages 49-62

  4. Virtual Reality (2)

    1. The Scan&Track Virtual Environment

      • Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal, Jun Ohya
      Pages 63-80

    2. CyberGlass: Vision-Based VRML2 Navigator

      • Chisato Numaoka
      Pages 81-87

    3. Work Task Analysis and Selection of Interaction Devices in Virtual Environments

      • Thomas Flaig
      Pages 88-96

    4. Effect of Stereoscopic Viewing on Human Tracking Performance in Dynamic Virtual Environments

      • Paul Richard, Philippe Hareux, Philippe Coiffet, Grigore Burdea
      Pages 97-106

  5. Virtual Reality (3)

    1. Interactive Movie: A Virtual World with Narratives

      • Ryohei Nakatsu, Naoko Tosa, Takeshi Ochi
      Pages 107-116

    2. Real-Image-Based Virtual Studio

      • Jong-Il Park, Seiki Inoue
      Pages 117-122

    3. Pop-Out Videos

      • Gianpaolo U. Carraro, John T. Edmark, J. Robert Ensor
      Pages 123-128

    4. Color Segmentation and Color Correction Using Lighting and White Balance Shifts

      • Philippe Gérard, Clifton Phillips, Ramesh Jain
      Pages 129-142

  6. Invited Paper

    1. Designing Emergence in Animated Artificial Life Worlds

      • Jeffrey Ventrella
      Pages 143-155

  7. Artificial Life

    1. ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned

      • Luigi Pagliarini, Ariel Dolan, Filippo Menczer, Henrik Hautop Lund
      Pages 156-167

    2. Information Flocking: Data Visualisation in Virtual Worlds Using Emergent Behaviours

      • Glenn Proctor, Chris Winter
      Pages 168-176

    3. Nerve Garden: A Public Terrarium in Cyberspace

      • Bruce Damer, Karen Marcelo, Frank Revi
      Pages 177-185

    4. A Two Dimensional Virtual World to Explain the Genetic Code Structure?

      • Jean-Luc Tyran
      Pages 186-192

  8. Multi-Agent

    1. Grounding Agents in EMud Artificial Worlds

      • Antony Robert, Fabrice Chantemargue, Michèle Courant
      Pages 193-204
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1 Introduction Imagine a virtual world with digital creatures that looks like real life, sounds like real life, and even feels like real life. Imagine a virtual world not only with nice three dimensional graphics and animations, but also with realistic physical laws and forces. This virtual world could be familiar, reproducing some parts of our reality, or unfa miliar, with strange “physical” laws and artificial life forms. As a researcher interested in the sciences of complexity, the idea of a conference about virtual worlds emerged from frustration. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the design of artificial environments using image synthesis and virtual reality. The emergence of industry standards such as VRML [1] is an illustra tion of this growing interest. At the same time, the field of Artificial Life has ad dressed and modeled complex phenomena such as self organization, reproduction, development, and evolution of artificial life like systems [2]. One of the most popular works in this field has been Tierra designed by Tom Ray: an environment producing synthetic organisms based on a computer metaphor of organic life in which CPU time is the “energy” resource and memory is the “material” resource [3]. Memory is or ganized into informational patterns that exploit CPU time for self replication. Muta tion generates new forms, and evolution proceeds by natural selection as different creatures compete for CPU time and memory space.

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  • International Institute of Multimedia, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, Paris La Defense Cedex, France

    Jean-Claude Heudin

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