Artificial Animals for Computer Animation

Download or read book Artificial Animals for Computer Animation written by Xiaoyuan Tu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the author's phD thesis, which won the 1996 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. The author proposes and develops an artificial life paradigm for computer graphics animation by systematically constructing artificial animals controlled by self-animating autonomous agents. The animation agents emulate the realistic appearance, movement, and behavior of individual animals, as well as the patterns of social behavior evident in groups of animals. The paradigm is based on a computational model capturing the essential characteristics common to all biological creatures: biomechanics, locomotion, perception, and behavior. The approach is validated through the implementation of a virtual marine world inhabited by a variety of lifelike artificial fish, where each fish is a functional autonomous agent.