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**        C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N          **
** HIT DETECTION IN (DISTRIBUTED) VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS **
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KEYWORDS: DISTRIBUTED, PARALLEL, OBJECT-COLLISION-DETECTION,
          VIRTUAL REALITY, 

Dear colleagues,

we are  looking  for research  groups  that  are involved in the 
development  of  (distributed)  object hit  detection algorithms
(on  massively  parallel  systems)  that are  needed  for object 
identification and  object  movement  by  users within a Virtual 
Reality environment.

The research group  of  Prof. Dr. B. Monien, Center for Parallel 
Computing,  University  of  Paderborn,  Germany,  would  like to 
point out the  efforts done in this area and to present the main 
techniques in a survey article. 

We would like  every research group that is involved in  one  of
the following areas to give a brief abstract  of  their  project 
and their used hit detection  techniques.  The  abstract  should
include  a  PROJECT  NAME,  STATE OF  RESEARCH,  EMAIL  ADDRESS,  
CONTACT PERSON or a full LITERATURE REFERENCE. All abstracts are
collected, evaluated and presented in the survey article.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

	+ sequential object hit detection techniques
	+ distributed object hit detection techniques on
	  shared memory as well as on distributed memory 
	  multiprocessor architectures
	+ algorithms  working on  distributed scene data
	  as well as on global scene data
	+ recently finished projects and implementations
	+ current projects and implementations
	+ future projects and implementations

The first version of the survey article can be received via  ftp 
within a few weeks at our local ftp server

	athene.uni-paderborn.de
	directory: HitDetection/


Thank you in advance for your cooperation,

-- Knut Menzel

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 Dipl. Math. Knut Menzel         University of Paderborn     
 email:   knut@uni-paderborn.de  Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing   
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