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    • 3-D Spatial Skills--A Key to the Effective Use of Computer Graphics Software? 

      Sorby, S.A. (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      Development and evaluation of 3-D spatial visualization skills is discussed. Correlations between measured spatial skills and ability to effectively use computer graphics software are analyzed and strategies to improve 3-D ...

    • 3D Geometry Compressionand Progressive Transmission 

      Taubin, Gabriel (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      Polygonal meshes remain the primary representation for visualization of 3D data in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, architecture, geographic information systems, medical imaging, robotics, entertainment, ...

    • 3D laser scanning numerical surface definition and fast prototyping of the Basel Bronze Head 

      Accardo, Giorgio; Scarpetta, Massimiliano (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      Starting from the experiences and results deriving from the cooperation between the Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Fox Bit srl and certain academic institutions, a study is presented which is aimed at using and adapting ...

    • 3D virtual facial reconstruction and visualization of ancient Egyptian mummies using spiral CT data 

      Attardi, Giuseppe; Betro, Marilina; Forte, Maurizio; Gori, Roberto; Guidazzoli, Antonella; Imboden, Silvano; Mallegni, Francesco (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      The problem of rebuilding a face from human remains has been, until now, especially relevant in the ambit of forensic sciences, where it is obviously oriented toward the identification of otherwise unrecognizable corpses; ...

    • Accelerated Artificial Landscape Visualisation 

      James, A.; Day, A.M. (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      We describe the design and implementation of four stages in an artificial landscape visualisation program. We begin by outlining a very simple but quick method of generating structurally realistic landscapes. We describe ...

    • Active Storytelling 

      Glassner, A. (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      People love to exchange stories. Stories provide a context for the events, feelings, ideas, and relationships that make up the fabric of our daily lives. When we describe an important experience in our life to another ...

    • Adaptive Refinements in Subdivision Surfaces? 

      Xu, Zheng; Kondo, Kunio (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      One problem in subdivision surfaces is the number of meshes grows quickly after every subdivision step. The number of meshes of the subdivision surface is usually huge and the scheme is difficult to manipulate. In this ...

    • Adaptive Scattered Data Interpolation with Multilevel Nonuniform B-Splines 

      Lin, J.; Huang, Z. (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      We present an adaptive method for scattered data interpolation. The method is based on multilevel nonuniform Bsplines. It makes use of a coarse-to-fine hierarchy of control lattices to generate a sequence of bicubic ...

    • Animating Brachiation 

      Zhang, Zheng; Wong, Kok Cheong (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      This paper presents a physically-based animation system for generating realistic motion of primate brachiation. One of the main aims of this system is to facilitate the process of generating brachiation sequences with ...

    • The atrium of St. Mary Abbey in Pomposa: a hypermedial 3-D network database 

      Alessandri, Claudio; Gaiani, Marco (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      The analysis carried out on the atrium of the church of Pomposa is an example of a multidisciplinary experience which gathered historians, computer analysts, structural and computer graphics experts on the same project. A ...

    • The Aurora 

      Sugano, Yoshinori; Masuda, Eiko (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      As you peek into Japans history of fine arts, a traditional way of expressing pictures can be found. It all started from printing scrolls way back in the 12th century and now turned into a medium as known as manga. Today ...

    • Baroque Dance Animation with Virtual Dancers 

      Bertolo, Maresa; Maninetti, Paolo; Marini, Daniele (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      Our approach to computer simulation of the human movement is based on a high level description of the grammar of the movement and on the combination of basic movements acquired using motion capture systems. The combinatory ...

    • Better Pasting Via Quasi-Interpolation 

      Mann, Stephen; Conrad, Blair (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      In this poster, we show our latest work on surface pasting, a hierarchical modeling technique. In surface pasting, we attach a feature surface to a base surface using an approximation technique. While we can use knot ...

    • Books and Devices from the Old -Their Renaissance in Computer Graphics 

      Eberhardt, Bernd; Gürcay, Hasmet; Hanisch, Frank; Hüttner, Tobias; Licht, Oliver; Nill, Benjamin (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      In the following we present three of our institute’s activities concerning cultural heritage. First we present a reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism, which is the world’s oldest calculator of astronomical purpose. ...

    • CharToon: a system to animate 2D cartoons faces 

      ten Hagen, Paul; Noot, Han; Ruttkay, Zsofia (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      We discuss the CharToon system by which one can interactively construct parametrized 2D drawings and a set of time curves to animate the drawings. The system has been implemented in JAVA and used to produce and animate 2D ...

    • Computer Animation of Pianist’s Hand 

      Kim, Junhwan (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      In this paper we present an algorithm for the animation of the pianist’s hand and the determination of piano fingering based on the animation. The animation shows feasible movement of hands and fingers. In general, the ...

    • Contour Extraction of Watermarks in Old Manuscripts 

      Wenger, Emanuel; Karnaukhov, Victor N.; Haidinger, Alois (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      The comparison of watermarks in old paper is the major technique for dating undated medieval manuscripts. The extraction of watermarks as contours is the crucial task in digitalization and building a watermark database. ...

    • Creating light-weight virtual humans for Virtual Environments 

      Oliveira, Joao; Buxton, Bernard (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      With the advent of whole body, 3D electro-optical scanners, a new range of applications are emerging that exploit the availability of personalised, realistic human models. However, realistic rendering of such models usually ...

    • The Danteum 

      Nagakura, Takehiko (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      The Danteum was a building designed for Rome in 1938 by two eminent Italian architects, Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri. Due to the defeat of their client, Mussolini, in WW II, the project was never realized and became ...

    • Design or art? Art or design? 

      Watson, K. (Eurographics Association, 1999)
      Exploring the similarities and the differences between artists and designers New technology has led to similarities in the work created by fine artists and designers who use computers. In the UK, design is still looked ...