DocumentCode
2150338
Title
Avatars a` la Snow Crash
Author
Allbeck, Jan M. ; Badler, Norman I.
Author_Institution
Center for Human Modeling & Simulation, Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
fYear
1998
fDate
8-10 Jun 1998
Firstpage
19
Lastpage
24
Abstract
We analyzed Neal Stephenson´s novel “Snow Crash” for all references to avatars. This analysis is documented in this paper, including a comparison of the Snow Crash avatars to the current state of real-time virtual human research. The avatar characteristics discussed include appearance, clothing and attachments, ethnicity, locomotion, body actions, forms of communication, emotion and personality
Keywords
literature; virtual reality; Metaverse; Neal Stephenson; Snow Crash; appearance; attachments; avatars; body actions; clothing; communication forms; emotion; ethnicity; locomotion; novel; personality; real-time virtual human; Avatars; Chromium; Clothing; Computer crashes; Graphics; Humans; Planets; Snow; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Animation 98. Proceedings
Conference_Location
Philadelphia, PA
ISSN
1087-4844
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8541-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CA.1998.681903
Filename
681903
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