Cyberworlds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Foundation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Philosophy

      1. The Philosophy of Synthetic Worlds — Digital Genesis for Communicating Synthetic Worlds and the Real World —

         • Tosiyasu L. Kunii

         Pages 5-15

   3. Architecture

      1. The Architecture of Synthetic Worlds

         • Tosiyasu L. Kunii

         Pages 19-30

      2. Influence of Emerging Synthetic Worlds on System Architecture

         • Jean Bellec

         Pages 31-37

3. Design and Implementation: Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Artificial Life

      1. The Meaning of Life — Real and/or Artificial

         • James M. Goodwin

         Pages 43-65

      2. Artificial Life as Synthetic Biology

         • Paul Bourgine, Eric Bonabeau

         Pages 67-79

      3. Simulation of the Growth of Plants — Modeling of Metamorphosis and Spatial Interactions in the Architecture and Development of Plants —

         • F. Blaise, J.-F. Barczi, M. Jaeger, P. Dinouard, Ph. de Reffye

         Pages 81-109

      4. Synthetic Animals in Synthetic Worlds

         • Agnès Guillot, Jean-Arcady Meyer

         Pages 111-123

      5. Simulating Autonomous Life for Virtual Actors

         • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

         Pages 125-141

      6. Towards Autonomous Synthetic Actors

         • Hansrudi Noser, Daniel Thalmann

         Pages 143-158

   3. Synthetic Art

      1. Sound Synthesis in Computer Music

         • Naotoshi Osaka

         Pages 161-174

      2. Virtual Revisiting of Architectural Masterpieces and the Problem of Lighting Simulation

         • Karol Myszkowski

         Pages 175-191

      3. Performance Facial Animation Cloning

         • Philippe Limantour

         Pages 193-206

   4. Synthetic Factories

      1. Towards the Synthetic Factories: Requirements and Components

         • Tsukasa Noma

         Pages 209-218

      2. Virtual Manufacturing — Concepts and Effects on Manufacturing in the Future —

         • Kenjiro T. Miura

         Pages 219-235

   5. Synthetic Communication

      1. Virtual Space Teleconferencing System — a Synthetic Teleconferencing System

         • Haruo Takemura, Fumio Kishino

         Pages 239-250

      2. Real Time Image Processing and Real Time Image Rendering for Televirtuality Application

         • Philippe Quéau

         Pages 251-256

   6. Synthetic Perception

      1. Towards a Complete Representation by Means of Computer — The Instrumental Communication Interface Concept —

         • Annie Luciani, Claude Cadoz, Jean Loup Florens

         Pages 259-271

The worlds synthesized in the cyberspaces of networked computers are the theme of Cyberworlds. Cyberspaces have come into prominence with the de­ velopment of the Internet and are expected to expand drastically with the emergence of national and international information systems. The purpose is to discover the architecture and design of cy­ of the book Cyberworlds berworlds by synthesizing worlds in cyberspaces. The underlying philosophy is crucial to the success of the architecture, and an initial effort is made to delineate it at the beginning of the book. The book's topics are selected to clarify the issues of the philosophy, architecture, and design of cyberworlds through a wide variety of case studies. The approach presented in the book is thus characterized as synthetic rather than analytic. There already are numbers of books with observations and analyses of cyberworlds. They warn of the danger of widespread crimes and accidents in the cyberworlds, for instance. Without a philosophy and methodologies of how to architecturally design and synthesize the cyber­ worlds, the worlds in cyberspaces tend to be arbitrarily extended, disordered, and, in extreme cases, criminal. This book is intended to benefit readers by providing them with a possible direction to take in deciding how to synthesize worlds in cyberspaces. Cre­ ating new worlds in new spaces with almost unlimited dimension and scale is an immense challenge. In principle, anyone at any moment can participate in the creation. The book serves as a creator's reference and also as a design guidebook.

• artificial life
• cyberspace
• decision support
• image processing
• perception
• philosophy
• simulation

• Hosei University, Koganei City, Tokyo, Japan

  Tosiyasu L. Kunii

• MONOLITH Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Tosiyasu L. Kunii

• ACROE, Grenoble Cedex, France

  Annie Luciani

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