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In this chapter we present techniques for spatial partitioning of scenes. These include grids, LODs, bounding boxes, binary space partitioning trees and “cells and portals”. Next, methods are introduced which have been developed for spatial partitioning of multi-user worlds: filtering, “locales and beacons” and auras. Theoretically, in a virtual world with n possibly moving objects there are 2n possible object-to-object interactions. Fortunately, in practice objects can be divided into subgroups based on spatial, but also application-specific, criteria.
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Diehl, S. (2001). Partitioning of Distributed Virtual Worlds. In: Distributed Virtual Worlds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04519-0_8
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