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This interdisciplinary volume aims to provoke a new understanding of the important role that computer-generated "virtual worlds" will play in domains such as science, business, computer games, education, training, and simulation. It introduces virtual worlds as a field, and reviews its historical roots, its goals, and its methodological approaches. Virtual worlds enable the study of a wide variety of "what if" questions relevant to our understanding of the world around us, by using image synthesis, modeling, multimedia, and virtual reality. We can imagine these virtual worlds reflecting some parts of our reality, but also synthesizing new universes with associated "physical" laws and artificial life forms. The contributors to this volume investigate the relationships between the natural and the artificial from both theoretical and philosophical points of views. They also address technical developments and practical applications.
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This interdisciplinary volume aims to provoke a new understanding of the important role that computer-generated "virtual worlds" will play in domains such as science, business, computer games, education, training, and simulation. It introduces virtual worlds as a field, and reviews its historical roots, its goals, and its methodological approaches. Virtual worlds enable the study of a wide variety of "what if" questions relevant to our understanding of the world around us, by using image synthesis, modeling, multimedia, and virtual reality. We can imagine these virtual worlds reflecting some parts of our reality, but also synthesizing new universes with associated "physical" laws and artificial life forms. The contributors to this volume investigate the relationships between the natural and the artificial from both theoretical and philosophical points of views. They also address technical developments and practical applications.
About the Author
Jean-Claude Heudin is a professor at the International Institute of Multimedia of Leonardo da Vinci University, Paris.
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referee module, artificial life worlds, designing emergence, digital organisms, animation structure, organized sexuality, complexity profile, genotype space, virtual humans, digital creatures, electronic cafe, computational medium, magnetic trackers, virtual creatures, synthetic organisms, artificial animal, artificial fishes, deformation function, artificial organisms, chaotic data, swimming creatures, deformation model, bit flips, genetic language, virtual universe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soccer Server, Nerve Garden, New York, Contemporary Art, Magnenat Thalmann, Contact Consortium, Lecture Notes, Sherwood Forest, Active Worlds, Great Barrier Reef, Karl Sims, Primary Metabolism, Bruce Damer, Darwin Pond, International Conference, Redwood City, Robot Soccer World Cup, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Game of Life, Santa Fe Institute Studies, United States, Conway's Life, Copy Art, Galeria Virtual New!
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- Computer Graphics by Acm Press on 7 pages
- Cellular Automata by Doyne Farmer on page 27, and page 28
- Game of Life by J. John on page 4, and page 10
- Human Body (Inside-Outside Puzzles, 2005) by Straight Edge Press on page 125, and page 179
- Genetic Algorithms (The Stanford Computer Science Video Journal : Artificial Intelligence Research Lectures) by John Koza on page 20, and page 93
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- Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment: Second International Conference, TIDSE 2004, Darmstadt, Germany, June 24-26, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Stefan Göbel on page 194
- Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings Of The First International Conference On Complex Systems (New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity) by Yaneer Bar-yam in Front Matter
- Unifying Themes In Complex Systems (New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity) (v. 1) by Yaneer Bar-yam in Front Matter
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