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Artificial Animals for Computer Animation

Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Xiaoyuan Tu

    1. Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1635)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 1-14

  3. Background

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 15-27

  4. Functional Anatomy of an Artificial Fish

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 29-31

  5. Biomechanical Fish Model and Locomotion

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 33-51

  6. Modeling the Form and Appearance of Fishes

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 53-63

  7. Perception Modeling

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 65-83

  8. The Behavior System

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 85-116

  9. Modeling the Marine Environment

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 117-120

  10. The Graphical User Interface

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 121-126

  11. Animation Results

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 127-133

  12. Conclusion and Future Work

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 135-142

  13. Epilogue

    • Xiaoyuan Tu
    Pages 143-147

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 149-172
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After nearly half a century of research, the Holy Grail of the ?eld of art- cial intelligence (AI) remains a comprehensive computational model capable of emulating the marvelous abilities of animals, including locomotion, p- ception, behavior, manipulation, learning, and cognition. The comprehensive modeling of higher animals –humans and other primates –remains elusive; However, the research documented in this monograph achieves nothing less than a functional computer model of certain species of lower animals that are by no means trivial in their complexity. Reported herein is the 1996 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award winning work of Xiaoyuan Tu, which she carried out in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Tu presents “arti?cial ?shes”, a rema- able computational model of familiar marine animals in their natural habitat. Originally conceived in the context of computer graphics, Tu’s is to date the only PhD dissertation from this major sub?eld of computer science (and the only thesis from a Canadian university) to win the coveted ACM award.

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  • Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Xiaoyuan Tu

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