Modifying a display quality of an area in a virtual universe according to avatar characteristics

A computer program product for modifying an appearance of an area of a virtual universe, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices;
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine a number of avatars that occupy the area;
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine a display quality of the area that can be reduced to conserve a computing resource that processes data to present the area;
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• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to reduce the display quality of the area proportionally to the numbers of avatars that occupy the area, and in response, to reduce usage of the computing resource to process data to present the area.

A computer program product for modifying an appearance of an area of a virtual universe, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices;
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to evaluate a significance of an activity that occurs in the area of the virtual universe;
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to generate a significance value based on an evaluation of the significance of the activity that occurs in the area;
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• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to modify a display quality of the area using the significance value.