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Adaptive crowd behaviour to aid real-time rendering of a cultural heritage environment

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VAST'04: Proceedings of the 5th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage

Pages 29 - 36

Published: 07 December 2004 Publication History

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In current city visualisations crowds are being included to increase realism in the scene. With the self-steering nature of crowds it is traditionally difficult to control the number of humans that could be in view at any one time. While rendering speedups have been successfully applied for many years, this paper takes another approach with the aim to keep a steady frame rate. We attempt to influence the crowd dynamics to maintain the frame rate, without this becoming apparent to the user. We show how this work can be applied to a virtual reality tour of a medieval town.

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Owen RBuhalis DPletinckx D(2005)Visitors' evaluations of ICTs used in cultural heritageProceedings of the 6th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage10.5555/2384344.2384364(129-136)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2384344.2384364
de Heras Ciechomski PSchertenleib SMaïm JMaupu DThalmann D(2005)Real-time shader rendering for crowds in virtual heritageProceedings of the 6th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage10.5555/2384344.2384357(91-98)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2384344.2384357

Index Terms

Adaptive crowd behaviour to aid real-time rendering of a cultural heritage environment
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics

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VAST'04: Proceedings of the 5th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage

December 2004

279 pages

ISBN:3905673185

Editors:
Yiorgos Chrysanthou
University of Cyprus
,
Kevin Cain
INSIGHT, San Francisco
,
Neil Silberman
Ename Center, Belgium
,
Franco Niccolucci
PIN, Italy

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IAPR: International Association for Pattern Recognition
VIOE: Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed
EPOCH: EPOCH - European Research Network on Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage
EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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Goslar, Germany

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Owen RBuhalis DPletinckx D(2005)Visitors' evaluations of ICTs used in cultural heritageProceedings of the 6th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage10.5555/2384344.2384364(129-136)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2384344.2384364
de Heras Ciechomski PSchertenleib SMaïm JMaupu DThalmann D(2005)Real-time shader rendering for crowds in virtual heritageProceedings of the 6th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage10.5555/2384344.2384357(91-98)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2384344.2384357

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