1. Editor’s note

   • QinPing Zhao

   EditorialNotes 11 March 2009 Pages: 347 - 347

2. A survey on virtual reality

   • QinPing Zhao

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 348 - 400

3. Meshless methods for physics-based modeling and simulation of deformable models

   • XiaoHu Guo
   • Hong Qin

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 401 - 417

4. Removing local irregularities of triangular meshes with highlight line models

   • JunHai Yong
   • BaiLin Deng
   • HeJin Gu

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 418 - 430

5. Estimating differential quantities from point cloud based on a linear fitting of normal vectors

   • ZhangLin Cheng
   • XiaoPeng Zhang

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 431 - 444

6. Time-varying clustering for local lighting and material design

   • PeiJie Huang
   • YuanTing Gu
   • EnHua Wu

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 445 - 456

7. ViWoSG: A distributed scene graph of ultramassive distributed virtual environments

   • GuoPing Wang
   • Sheng Li
   • WenHang Li

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 457 - 469

8. LoI: Efficient relevance evaluation and filtering for distributed simulation

   • Zhong Zhou
   • Wei Wu

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 470 - 489

9. A hybrid rendering algorithm for textile objects

   • MingMin Zhang
   • ZhiGeng Pan
   • QingFeng Mi

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 490 - 499

10. Modeling plants with sensor data

    • Wei Ma
    • Bo Xiang
    • XiaoPeng Zhang

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 500 - 511

11. Texture synthesis via the matching compatibility between patches

    • WenCheng Wang
    • FeiTong Liu
    • EnHua Wu

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 512 - 522

12. An improved description method of the bumpy texture

    • RongHua Gao
    • DeHui Kong
    • BaoCai Yin

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 523 - 528

13. Haptic rendering for dental training system

    • DangXiao Wang
    • YuRu Zhang
    • WanLin Zhou

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 529 - 546