Computers & Graphics, Volume 30

Volume 30, Number 1, February 2006

Edutainment

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  Zhigeng Pan:
  Special issue on edutainment (E-learning and game). 1-2
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  Yiyu Cai, Baifang Lu, Zhaowei Fan, Chandrasekaran Indhumathi, Kian Teck Lim, Ching Wern Chan, Yuan Jiang, Lin Li:
  Bio-edutainment: Learning life science through X gaming. 3-9
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  Jim X. Chen:
  Learning abstract concepts through interactive playing. 10-19
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  Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Hongwei Yang, Jiejie Zhu, Jiaoying Shi:
  Virtual reality and mixed reality for virtual learning environments. 20-28

Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery

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  Eric Andres, Guillaume Damiand, Pascal Lienhardt:
  Introduction. 29
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  Isabelle Debled-Rennesson, Fabien Feschet, Jocelyne Rouyer-Degli:
  Optimal blurred segments decomposition of noisy shapes in linear time. 30-36
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  Pierre Y. Chatelier, Rémy Malgouyres:
  A low-complexity discrete radiosity method. 37-45
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  David Coeurjolly, Loutfi Zerarga:
  Supercover model, digital straight line recognition and curve reconstruction on the irregular isothetic grids. 46-53
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  Bertrand Kerautret, Achille J.-P. Braquelaire:
  A reversible and statistical method for discrete surfaces smoothing. 54-61
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  Samuel Peltier, Sylvie Alayrangues, Laurent Fuchs, Jacques-Olivier Lachaud:
  Computation of homology groups and generators. 62-69
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  Peer Stelldinger, Ullrich Köthe:
  Connectivity preserving digitization of blurred binary images in 2D and 3D. 70-76
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  Peter Veelaert, Kristof Teelen:
  Consensus sets for affine transformation uncertainty polytopes. 77-85

Technical Section

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  Ugur Dogrusöz, Burkay Genç:
  A multi-graph approach to complexity management in interactive graph visualization. 86-97
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  Pere-Pau Vázquez, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert, Antoni Llobet:
  Realtime automatic selection of good molecular views. 98-110
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  Yu Wang, Charlie C. L. Wang, Matthew M. F. Yuen:
  Fast energy-based surface wrinkle modeling. 111-125

Chaos and Graphics

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  Cameron Browne:
  Fractal board games. 126-133
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  Paul David Bourke:
  An introduction to the Apollonian fractal. 134-136

Education

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  Naai-Jung Shih:
  RP-aided computer modeling for architectural education. 137-144

Volume 30, Number 2, April 2006

Shape Reasoning and Understanding

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  Bianca Falcidieno, Remco C. Veltkamp:
  Shape reasoning and understanding. 158-159
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  Livio De Luca, Philippe Véron, Michel Florenzano:
  Reverse engineering of architectural buildings based on a hybrid modeling approach. 160-176
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  Hervé Glotin, Sabrina Tollari, Pascale Giraudet:
  Shape reasoning on mis-segmented and mis-labeled objects using approximated Fisher criterion. 177-184
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  Michela Mortara, Giuseppe Patanè, Michela Spagnuolo:
  From geometric to semantic human body models. 185-196
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  Marco Reisert, Hans Burkhardt:
  Second order 3D shape features: An exhaustive study. 197-206

Technical Section

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  Asif-ul Haque, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Mehedi Bakht, Mohammad Kaykobad:
  Drawing lines by uniform packing. 207-212
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  Jie-Hui Gong, Gui-Fang Zhang, Hui Zhang, Jia-Guang Sun:
  Reconstruction of 3D curvilinear wire-frame from three orthographic views. 213-224
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  Hassan Ugail:
  Method of trimming PDE surfaces. 225-232
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  Kup-Sze Choi:
  Interactive cutting of deformable objects using force propagation approach and digital design analogy. 233-243
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  Chung-Ming Wang, Peng-Cheng Wang:
  Steganography on point-sampled geometry. 244-254
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  Hans-Heino Ehricke, Uwe Klose, Wolfgang Grodd:
  Visualizing MR diffusion tensor fields by dynamic fiber tracking and uncertainty mapping. 255-264
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  Benjamin Vrolijk, Frits H. Post:
  Interactive out-of-core isosurface visualisation in time-varying data sets. 265-276

Chaos and Graphics

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  Slawomir Nikiel:
  Integration of iterated function systems and vector graphics for aesthetics. 277-283

Surveys

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  Robina Hetherington, Brian Farrimond, Steve Presland:
  Information rich temporal virtual models using X3D. 287-298
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  George Sidiropoulos, Athanasios V. Vasilakos:
  Ultra-real or symbolic visualization? The case of the city through time. 299-310

Volume 30, Number 3, June 2006

Computer Graphics in Italy

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  Raffaele De Amicis:
  Introduction. 321-322
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  Marco Attene, Silvia Biasotti, Michela Mortara, Giuseppe Patanè, Michela Spagnuolo, Bianca Falcidieno:
  Computational methods for understanding 3D shapes. 323-333
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  Emanuele Danovaro, Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo, Davide Sobrero:
  Level-of-detail for data analysis and exploration: A historical overview and some new perspectives. 334-344
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  Giancarlo Amati, Alfredo Liverani, Gianni Caligiana:
  From spline to Class-A curves through multi-scale analysis filtering. 345-352
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  Francesca Taponecco:
  Dense texture-based visualization of unsteady and multi-variate vector fields. 353-358
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  Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro S. Pantano, Fausto Stranges:
  Computer graphics meets chaos and hyperchaos. Some key problems. 359-367
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  Marco Callieri, Paul E. Debevec, J. Pair, Roberto Scopigno:
  A realtime immersive application with realistic lighting: The Parthenon. 368-376
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  Monica Bordegoni, Giorgio Colombo, Luca Formentini:
  Haptic technologies for the conceptual and validation phases of product design. 377-390
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  Marzia Fontana, Caterina Rizzi, Umberto Cugini:
  A CAD-oriented cloth simulation system with stable and efficient ODE solution. 391-406

Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation

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  Fabio Ganovelli, César Mendoza:
  Introduction. 407
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  Joachim Georgii, Rüdiger Westermann:
  A multigrid framework for real-time simulation of deformable bodies. 408-415
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  Julien Lenoir, Stephane Cotin, Christian Duriez, Paul F. Neumann:
  Interactive physically-based simulation of catheter and guidewire. 416-422
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  Thanh Giang, Carol O'Sullivan:
  Approximate collision response using closest feature maps. 423-431
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  César Mendoza, Carol O'Sullivan:
  Interruptible collision detection for deformable objects. 432-438
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  Daniel S. Coming, Oliver G. Staadt:
  Kinetic sweep and prune for multi-body continuous motion. 439-449
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  Thomas Larsson, Tomas Akenine-Möller:
  A dynamic bounding volume hierarchy for generalized collision detection. 450-459

Chaos and Graphics

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  M. Romera, G. Pastor, Gonzalo Álvarez, Fausto Montoya Vitini:
  External arguments in the multiple-spiral medallions of the Mandelbrot set. 460-469
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  Yuru Zou, Wenxia Li, Jian Lu, Ruisong Ye:
  Orbit trap rendering method for generating artistic images with cyclic or dihedral symmetry. 470-473

Volume 30, Number 4, August 2006

Special Issue: Natural Phenomena

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  Gladimir V. G. Baranoski, Márcio Lobo Netto:
  Natural Phenomena Simulation. 483-484
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  Petri Varsa, Jon G. Rokne:
  Simulation of the ball lightning phenomenon. 485-493
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  Gilles Valette, Stéphanie Prévost, Laurent Lucas, Joël Léonard:
  SoDA project: A simulation of soil surface degradation by rainfall. 494-506
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  Pierre Rousseau, Vincent Jolivet, Djamchid Ghazanfarpour:
  Realistic real-time rain rendering. 507-518
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  Ye Zhao, Lujin Wang, Feng Qiu, Arie E. Kaufman, Klaus Mueller:
  Melting and flowing in multiphase environment. 519-528
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  Yasuhiro Akagi, Katsuhiro Kitajima:
  Computer animation of swaying trees based on physical simulation. 529-539

Technical Section

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  Qingbiao Wu, Xinxian Huang, Yujuan Han:
  A clipping algorithm for parabola segments against circular windows. 540-560
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  Richard J. Cant, Caroline S. Langensiepen:
  Efficient anti-aliased bump mapping. 561-580
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  Zhong Li, Dereck S. Meek, Desmond J. Walton:
  A smooth, obstacle-avoiding curve. 581-587
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  Márta Szilvási-Nagy, Ildikó Szabó:
  Generalization of Coons' construction. 588-597
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  M. Pourazady, X. Xu:
  Direct manipulations of NURBS surfaces subjected to geometric constraints. 598-609
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  Yong Joo Kil, Pietro Renzulli, Oliver Kreylos, Bernd Hamann, Giuseppe Monno, Oliver G. Staadt:
  3D warp brush modeling. 610-618
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  Giuseppe Conti, Giuliana Ucelli, Raffaele De Amicis:
  "Verba Volant Scripta Manent" a false axiom within virtual environments. A semi-automatic tool for retrieval of semantics understanding for speech-enabled VR applications. 619-628
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  Qi Liu, Alexei Sourin:
  Function-based shape modelling extension of the Virtual Reality Modelling Language. 629-645

Chaos and Graphics

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  Paul David Bourke:
  Constrained diffusion-limited aggregation in 3 dimensions. 646-649
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  James A. Walsh:
  Reverse bifurcations in a unimodal queueing model. 650-657

Education

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  Beatriz Sousa Santos:
  An introductory course on Human-Computer Interaction: Programme, bibliography, practical classes and assignments. 658-668

Volume 30, Number 5, October 2006

Special Issue: Mobile Computing and Ambient Intelligence

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  Thomas Kirste, Heidi Schumann:
  Introduction. 679-680
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  Oliver Storz, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies:
  Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays. 681-691
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  Erik G. Nilsson, Jacqueline Floch, Svein O. Hallsteinsen, Erlend Stav:
  Model-based user interface adaptation. 692-701
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  Kris Luyten, Jan Van den Bergh, Chris Vandervelpen, Karin Coninx:
  Designing distributed user interfaces for ambient intelligent environments using models and simulations. 702-713
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  Zdenek Míkovec, Ladislav Cmolík, Jiri Kopsa, Pavel Slavík:
  Beyond traditional interaction in a mobile environment: New approach to 3D scene rendering. 714-726
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  Uwe Rauschenbach:
  Interactive TV: A new application for mobile computing. 727-736

Technical Section

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  Antônio Castelo Filho, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Marcelo F. Siqueira, Rosane Minghim, Geovan Tavares:
  The J^a_l triangulation: An adaptive triangulation in any dimension. 737-753
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  Tobias Isenberg, Angela Brennecke:
  G-Strokes: A Concept for Simplifying Line Stylization. 754-766
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  Seunghyup Shin, Tomoyuki Nishita, Sung Yong Shin:
  On pixel-based texture synthesis by non-parametric sampling. 767-778
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  Wei Zeng, Xiangxu Meng, Chenglei Yang, Lei Huang:
  Feature extraction for online handwritten characters using Delaunay triangulation. 779-786
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  Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les:
  The cyclic object: The example of visual reasoning in the shape understanding system. 787-799
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  Yong Liu, Congfu Xu, Zhigeng Pan, Yunhe Pan:
  Semantic modeling for ancient architecture of digital heritage. 800-814

Chaos and Graphics

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  John McDonald:
  Fractal classifications of trajectories in a nonlinear mass-spring system. 815-833
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  Cameron Browne, Paul B. van Wamelen:
  Spiral packing. 834-842
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  Philip R. Van Loocke, Yannick Joye:
  Symmetry breaking in fields as a methodology for three-dimensional fractal form generation. 843-853

SURVEY

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  Timothy S. Newman, Hong Yi:
  A survey of the marching cubes algorithm. 854-879

Volume 30, Number 6, December 2006

Special Issue: Mesh Analysis

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  Ayellet Tal, Thomas A. Funkhouser, Ariel Shamir:
  Editorial. 891
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  Jean-Philippe Pernot, George-Florin Moraru, Philippe Véron:
  Filling holes in meshes using a mechanical model to simulate the curvature variation minimization. 892-902
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  Cheuk Yiu Ip, William C. Regli:
  A 3D object classifier for discriminating manufacturing processes. 903-916
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  Geetika Tewari, Craig Gotsman, Steven J. Gortler:
  Meshing genus-1 point clouds using discrete one-forms. 917-926
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  Jin Huang, Xinguo Liu, Hujun Bao, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum:
  An efficient large deformation method using domain decomposition. 927-935
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  Hiroshi Masuda, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Yoshiyuki Furukawa:
  Interactive mesh deformation using equality-constrained least squares. 936-946

Technical Section

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  Francisco Martínez, Antonio J. Rueda Ruiz, Francisco R. Feito:
  The multi-L-REP decomposition and its application to a point-in-polygon inclusion test. 947-958
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  Núria Pla Garcia, Marc Vigo Anglada, Josep Cotrina Navau:
  N-sided patches with B-spline boundaries. 959-970
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  José Mario De Martino, Léo Pini Magalhães, Fábio Violaro:
  Facial animation based on context-dependent visemes. 971-980
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  K. C. Hui, H. C. Leung:
  Expression modeling - a boundary element approach. 981-993
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  Diego Gutierrez, Francisco J. Serón, Adolfo Muñoz, Oscar Anson:
  Simulation of atmospheric phenomena. 994-1010
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  Giuseppe Di Gironimo, Antonio Lanzotti, Amalia Vanacore:
  Concept design for quality in virtual environment. 1011-1019

Chaos And Graphics

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  Afonso Paiva, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Jorge Stolfi:
  Robust visualization of strange attractors using affine arithmetic. 1020-1026
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  Cameron Browne:
  Wild knots. 1027-1032

Education

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  Johannes Görke, Frank Hanisch, Wolfgang Straßer:
  Introducing live graphics gems to educational material. 1033-1041