Virtual Environments and Scientific Visualization ’96

Virtual Environments ’96.- Optimizing Communication in Distributed Virtual Environments by Specialized Protocols.- MAVERIK — The Manchester Virtual Environment Interface Kernel.- MPSC — A Model of Distributed Virtual Environments.- Virtual Reality Programming in Oz.- TELEPORT — An Augmented Reality Teleconferencing Environment.- Achieving Virtual Presence with a Semi-Autonomous Robot Through a Multi-Reality and Speech Control Interface.- Quick Elimination of Non-interference Polytopes in Virtual Environments.- Intergrating Graphics into Video Image-Based Camera Tracking and Filtering.- 3D-Morphing and its Application to Virtual Reality.- Motor Functions in the VLNET Body-Centered Networked Virtual Environment.- Crowd Simulation in Immersive Space Management.- Collaborative Geometrical Modelling in Immersive Virtual Environments.- Multi-User Interactions in the Context of Concurrent Virtual World Modelling.- System Integration of VR-Simulated Surgical Support System.- Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL).- Dynamic Management of Geographic Data in a Virtual Environment.- VRML for LHC Engineering.- Virtual Housing System.- Scientific Visualization ’96.- Volume Rendering.- DiscMC: An Interactive System for Fast Fitting Isosurfaces on Volume Data.- Nearest Neighbour Search for Visualization Using Arbitrary Triangulation.- Fast Ray-Tracing of Rectilinear Volume Data.- Metric Volume Rendering.- User Interfaces and Scientific Visualization.- Scientific Visualization and Virtual Prototyping in the Product Development Process.- Characterizing Global Features of Simulation Data by Selected Local Icons.- Doing it Right: Psychological Tests to Ensure the Quality of Scientific Visualization.- Architecture of Scientific Visualization Systems.- CSE: AModular Architecture for Computational Steering.- The Dataflow Visualization Pipeline as a Problem Solving Environment.- Unhiding Hidden Markov Models by their Visualization (Application in Speech Processing).- Flow Visualization.- Visualization of Turbulent Flow by Spot Noise.- Flow Visualization for Multiblock Multigrid Simulations.- Appendix: Colour Figures.