Patent ID: 8514249

Claim:
A method of coalescing and collapsing a first area of a virtual universe into a second area of the virtual universe, the method comprising: a computer detecting an indication to reduce usage of a computing resource in the virtual universe; the computer determining the first area of the virtual universe for coalescing and collapsing into the second area of the virtual universe in response to said computer detecting the indication to reduce usage of the computing resource in the virtual universe, wherein the first area comprises a plurality of virtual universe objects; the computer selecting a first set of the plurality of virtual universe objects for moving from the first area into the second area; the computer coalescing the first set of the plurality of virtual universe objects into the second area from the first area; and the computer collapsing the first area of the virtual universe in response to said computer coalescing the first set of the plurality of virtual universe objects into the second area from the first area.