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From: simon@cuisun.unige.ch
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: world modelling
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Date: 16 Jul 90 13:40:00 GMT
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A lot of what I've seen in this group seems to deal
with user interface devices for entering a
virtual reality. I was wondering if someone could
send me pointers to work on modelling and
the internal representation of virtual worlds.

In particular I'd be interested to know if there are any
modelling languages for describing/constructing virtual
worlds. For example, are there world models which include
processes in the virtual world as well as descriptions of
object locations and attributes? If so, has anyone devised
representations which make it easy to change global properties
of a virtual world (such as a world's physical laws)?

I'll post a summary of replies to the net...

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