Walking Through A Very Large Virtual Environment In Real-time

Summary: Very large VE walkthrough leveraged by database techniques—indexing, caching, prefetching—to sustain real-time navigation. Prototype REVIEW tested on a 1 GB synthetic cityscape; achieves near-constant frame rate and improved visual effects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8764
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.3006479e-05
Overall Rank: 5,853 | 59.29%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,916	Compressing Large Boolean Matrices Using Reordering Techniques	2004	VLDB	6.6328898e-05

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2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032169493
13,822	REVIEW: A Real-time Virtual Walkthrough System	2001	SIGMOD	-

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