Encoding method for efficient storage, transmission and sharing of multidimensional virtual worlds

Abstract

The invention relates to a coding system for storing whichever dimension multidimensional virtual worlds data, to the end of their high-speed transmission among information processing systems and their shared use and creation. With the proposed method, as for the invention, information needed to define three-dimensional objects and other entities needed to create a virtual world in space and time are stored into reusable procedural data structures. In this way a “compression by concepts” of virtual world data is done. Such data are not stored and transmitted as they are, but as abstractions of object categories. Such a technique allows to reuse any data structures any time an object of its type is requested; in this way the amount of data to store or transmit is greatly reduced, and the downloading and exploration of virtual worlds in real time even with low-speed connections are thus allowed. The technique also allows the definition of highly variable dimensions virtual worlds, from the subatomic to the cosmic one. The spatial and temporal extensions of each element are stored in a conceptual way too, as well as the coordinates of each entity in space and time.

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