LiveSync: deformed viewing spheres for knowledge-based navigation

Peter Kohlmann1, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar

  • 1Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology. kohlmann@cg.tuwein.ac.at

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