Virtual environments and scientific visualization '96 : proceedings of the Eurographics workshops in Monte Carlo, Monaco, February 19-20, 1996, and in Prague, Czech Republic, April 23-25, 1996 ; [the Third Workshop on Virtual Envrionments ... the Seventh

Selected papers from this year’s Workshops on Virtual Environments and on Visualization in Scientific Computing are included in this volume. The papers on VE discuss Virtual Environment System architecture, communication requirements, synthetic actors, crowd simulations and modeling aspects, application experience in surgery support, geographic information systems, and engineering and virtual housing systems. Contributions from the Visualization workshop are presented in four groups: volume rendering, user interfaces in scientific visualization, architecture of scientific visualization systems and flow visualization. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Optimizing Communication in Distributed Virtual Environments by Specialized Protocols....Pages 1-10 MAVERIK....Pages 11-20 MPSC — A Model of Distributed Virtual Environments....Pages 21-30 Virtual Reality Programming in Oz....Pages 31-40 TELEPORT — An Augmented Reality Teleconferencing Environment....Pages 41-49 Achieving Virtual Presence with a Semi-Autonomous Robot Through a Multi-Reality and Speech Control Interface....Pages 50-63 Quick Elimination of Non-Interference Polytopes in Virtual Environments....Pages 64-73 Integrating Graphics Into Video Image-Based Camera Tracking and Filtering....Pages 74-84 3D-Morphing and its Application to Virtual Reality....Pages 85-93 Motor functions in the VLNET Body-Centered Networked Virtual Environment....Pages 94-103 Crowd Simulation in Immersive Space Management....Pages 104-110 Collaborative Geometrical Modeling in Immersive Virtual Environments....Pages 111-120 Multi-user interactions in the context of concurrent virtual world modelling....Pages 121-130 System integration of VR-simulated surgical support system....Pages 131-136 Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL)....Pages 137-148 Dynamic Management of Geographic Data in a Virtual Environment....Pages 149-158 VRML for LHC Engineering....Pages 159-168 Virtual Housing System....Pages 169-177 DiscMc: An Interactive System for Fast Fitting Isosurfaces on Volume Data....Pages 178-190 Nearest Neighbour Search for Visualization Using Arbitrary Triangulations....Pages 191-200 Fast ray-tracing of rectilinear volume data....Pages 201-210 Metric Volume Rendering....Pages 211-222 Scientific Visualization and Virtual Prototyping in the Product Development Process....Pages 223-233 Characterizing global features of simulation data by selected local icons....Pages 234-242 Doing It Right: Psychological Tests to Ensure the Quality of Scientific Visualization....Pages 243-256 CSE....Pages 257-266 The Dataflow Visualization Pipeline as a Problem Solving Environment....Pages 267-276 Unhiding Hidden Markov Models by Their Visualization (Application in Speech Processing)....Pages 277-285 Visualization of Turbulent Flow by Spot Noise....Pages 286-295 Flow Visualization for Multiblock Multigrid Simulations....Pages 296-307 Back Matter....Pages 309-324