Computer Animation and Simulation ’96

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Adaptive Optimization Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Incremental Update of the Visibility Map as Seen by a Moving Viewpoint in Two Dimensions

      • Sherif Ghali, A. James Stewart

      Pages 3-13

   3. Adaptive sampling for very large particle systems using an incremental self-organizing feature map: an application in molecular dynamic

      • Laurent Balmelli

      Pages 15-29

   4. Adaptive Refinement for Mass/Spring Simulations

      • Dave Hutchinson, Martin Preston, Terry Hewitt

      Pages 31-45

3. Animation of Deformable Objects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. A Fire Model for 2-D Computer Animation

      • Jinhui Yu, John W. Patterson

      Pages 49-60

   3. Smoothed Particles: A new paradigm for animating highly deformable bodies

      • Mathieu Desbrun, Marie-Paule Gascuel

      Pages 61-76

4. Human Motion Capture and Simulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. A Real Time Anatomical Converter For Human Motion Capture

      • Tom Molet, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann

      Pages 79-94

   3. A High-Level Control Mechanism for Human Locomotion Based on Parametric Frame Space Interpolation

      • Shang Guo, James Robergé

      Pages 95-107

   4. Simulating Human Movements Using Optimal Control

      • Xinmin Zhao, Deepak Tolani, Bond-Jay Ting, Norman I. Badler

      Pages 109-120

   5. A Biomechanical Musculoskeletal Model of Human Upper Limb for Dynamic Simulation

      • W. Maurel, D. Thalmann, P. Hoffmeyer, P. Beylot, P. Gingins, P. Kalra et al.

      Pages 121-136

5. Plant Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Interactive Modelling and Animation of Branching Botanical Structures

      • Bernd Lintermann, Oliver Deussen

      Pages 139-151

   3. An Efficient Estimation of Light in Simulation of Plant Development

      • Bedřich Beneš

      Pages 153-165

6. Motion Control and Motion Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. A Planning Algorithm for Dynamic Motions

      • Pedro S. Huang, Michiel van de Panne

      Pages 169-182

   3. Plausible Motion Simulation for Computer Graphics Animation

      • Ronen Barzel, John R. Hughes, Daniel N. Wood

      Pages 183-197

   4. Motion Synthesis By Example

      • Alexis Lamouret, Michiel van de Panne

      Pages 199-212

The 14 papers in this volume vividly demonstrate the current state of research in real-time animation. Half of the papers are dedicated to algorithm allowing the real-time animation of complex articulated structure in particular (humans, legged robots, plants) and of dynamic scenes in general. The proposed approaches cover from motion capture to motion reusability which are essential issues for high-end applications as 3D games, virtual reality, etc. Other topics treated are motion management for fast design of realistic movements, 2D and 3D deformations, and various optimization techniques for simulation (adaptive mass-spring refinement, huge particule systems).

• 3D
• 3D graphics
• Animation
• Interpolation
• algorithms
• computer animation
• model
• modeling
• simulation
• virtual reality

• Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Ronan Boulic

• Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes Cedex, France

  Gerard Hégron

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