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. The contributors to this volume investigate the relationships between the natural and the artificial from both theoretical and philosophical points of view. They also address technical developments and practical applications.
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Jean-Claude Heudin is a professor at the International Institute of Multimedia of Leonardo da Vinci University, Paris.
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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) 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
- Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, And Complexity (New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity) (v. 1) by Jean-claude Heudin in Front Matter
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