Journal papers, conference contributions and technical reports

• Interactive Rendering with Real-World Illumination, S. Gibson and A. Murta, 11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2000, to appear.

 
• Managing the Complexity of Physically Based Modelling in Virtual Reality, Mashhuda Glencross and Alan Murta, 3IA'2000, Limoges, France, ISBN: 2-914256-03-5, pp.41-48, May 2000.

 
• Interactive Rendering with Real-World Illumination, Simon Gibson and Alan Murta, Technical Report UMCS-00-3-2, University of Manchester Department of Computer Science, March 2000.

 
• Visualizing Mobile Robot Sonar Data using Polygon Set Operations, Alan Murta and Kenneth Roper, SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000, San Jose, ISBN: 0-8194-3578-3, pp.346-353, January 2000.

 
• Virtual Environments for Scene of Crime Reconstruction and Analysis, T.L.J. Howard, A.D. Murta and S. Gibson, SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000, San Jose, ISBN: 0-8194-3578-3, pp.41-48, January 2000.

 
• GNU/MAVERIK: A Micro-Kernel for Large-Scale Virtual Environments, Roger Hubbold, Jon Cook, Martin Keates, Simon Gibson, Toby Howard, Alan Murta, Adrian West and Steve Pettifer, Proc. Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1999, December 1999.

 
• A Virtual Jacob's Ladder, Mashhuda Glencross and Alan Murta, GraphiCon-99, Moscow, ISBN: 5-89209-436-7, pp.88-94, August 1999.

 
• MAVERIK: A Virtual Reality System for Research and Teaching, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold and A.D. Murta, GVE'99, Coimbra, Portugal, July 1999.

 
• Modelling and Rendering Liquids in Motion, Alan Murta and James Miller, WSCG'99, Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic, ISBN: 80-7082-490-5, pp.194-201, February 1999.

 
• Multi-body Simulation in Virtual Environments, Mashhuda Glencross and Alan Murta, 12th European Simulation Multiconference, Manchester, June 1998.

 
• Modelling and Rendering for Scene of Crime Reconstruction: A Case Study, A.D. Murta, S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold and A.J. West, Eurographics UK, Leeds, pp.169-173, March 1998.

 
• Managing Complexity and Feature Placement in Planetary Terrain Synthesis, Alan Murta, James Miller and Simon Embley, WSCG'98, Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic, ISBN: 80-7082-360-7, pp.276-282, February 1998.

 
• 1995 Survey of Virtual Reality Activity in the United Kingdom, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta and A.J. West, Advisory Group on Computer Graphics, January 1996.

 
• Vertical Axis Awareness in 3D Environments, Alan Murta, Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments '95, London, pp.169-176, December 1995.

 
• Visualization of Mobile Robot Environments from Acoustic Sensor Data, Alan Murta, Virtual Systems and Multimedia '95, Gifu, Japan, pp.195-200, September 1995.

 
• 1994 Survey of Virtual Reality Activity in the United Kingdom, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta and A.J. West, Advisory Group on Computer Graphics Technical Report Number 27, ISSN 1356-9066, January 1995.

 
• Support for Network-Wide Synchronous Communication via the Active Reconfiguration of Transputer Links, Alan Murta, World Transputer Congress '93, Aachen, Germany, pp.772-788, September 1993.

 
• Design Issues for Virtual Reality Systems, Roger Hubbold, Alan Murta, Adrian West and Toby Howard, First Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Barcelona, Spain, September 1993.

 
• Modelling Rodin's Thinker: A case study combining PHIGS and ray-tracing, Alan Murta, Gareth Williams and Toby Howard, Advanced Techniques in Animation, Rendering and Visualization '93, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey, pp.243-254, July 1993.

 
• Active Reconfiguration of Transputer Links for Network-Wide Occam Communication, Alan Murta, invited paper, Essex University / Parsys Reconfiguration Workshop, London, August 1992.

 
• Practical Experience of Run-Time Link Reconfiguration in a Multi-Transputer Machine, Peter Jones and Alan Murta, in Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 1, No. 2, John Wiley, pp.171-189, December 1989.

 
• The Implementation of a Run-Time Link-Switching Environment for Multi-Transputer Machines, Peter Jones and Alan Murta, NATUG 2, Durham NC, USA, pp.107-122, October 1989.

 
• Support for Occam Channels via Dynamic Switching in Multi-Transputer Machines, Peter Jones and Alan Murta, Proceedings of the 9th Occam User Group, Southampton, pp.101-112, September 1988.

 

Software / algorithms

• A generic polygon clipping library. C sources and documentation, first released 1997.

 

Book contributions

• AVIARY - A Generic Virtual Reality interface for Real Applications, A.J. West, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta, D.N. Snowdon and D.A. Butler, in Virtual Reality Systems, pp.213-236, Academic Press, 1993.

 

Review articles

• R. Jackson, L. MacDonald and K. Freeman, Computer Generated Color: A Practical Guide to Presentation and Display for Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1995.

 
• A.J. Crilly, R.A. Earnshaw and H. Jones (eds.), Applications of Fractals and Chaos for Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 12, No. 2, May 1994.

 
• A. Watt and M. Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques for Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 12, No. 5, December 1993.

 
• S. Whitman, Multiprocessor Methods for Computer Graphics Rendering for Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 11, No. 4, October 1992.