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For example, at University of New Mexico's
Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media program
(IFDM), we teach the basics of polygon modeling
and animation in half a semester. In the second
half of the semester, the students break up into
groups of four consisting of a producer, an artist, a
designer, and a programmer and they collaborate
to design and implement a serious game.
Building such applications will give the multi-
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needed to create more complex environments.
And like the Web, the truly innovative uses of
multi-user virtual environments lie still ahead.

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CONCLUSION

This chapter covered two of the basics skills
needed to create a virtual world: modeling and
texture mapping. The emphasis was on modeling
the exterior aspects of a virtual world by taking
simple primitives that are available in most model-
ing programs—like cubes and planes—and then
using the operations or techniques of moving and
removing elements, as well as cutting edges into
faces, and extruding faces to mold these primitives
into more complex objects, either real or imagined.
While the chapter emphasized the modeling
of exterior objects, these same primitives and
techniques can be used to create interior objects
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