Physics-Based Animation (Graphics Series) - Hardcover

Sporring, Jon; Henriksen, Knud; Dohlmann, Hendrik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584503807 ISBN 13: 9781584503804

Verlag: Charles River Media, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The booming computer games and animated movie industries continue to drive the graphics community's seemingly insatiable search for increased realism, believability, ad speed. To achieve the quality expected by audiences of today's games and movies, programmers need to understand and implement physics-based animation. To provide this understanding, this book is written to teach students and practitioners and theory behind the mathematical models and techniques required for physics-based animation. It does not teach the basic principles of animation, but rather how to transform theoretical techniques into practical skills. It details how the mathematical models are derived from physical and mathematical principles, and explains how these mathematical models are solved in an efficient, robust, and stable manner with a computer. This impressive and comprehensive volume covers all the issues involved in physics-based animation, including collision detection, geometry, mechanics, differential equations, matrices, quaternions, and more. There is excellent coverage of collision detection algorithms and a detailed overview of a physics system. In addition, numerous examples are provided along with detailed pseudo code for most of the algorithms. This book is ideal for students of animation, researchers in the field, and professionals working in the games and movie industries. Topics Covered: * The Kinematics: Articulated Figures, Forward and Inverse Kinematics, Motion Interpolation * Multibody Animation: Particle Systems, Continuum Models with Finite Differences, the Finite Element Method, Computational Fluid Dynamics * Collision Detection: Broad and Narrow Phase Collision Detection, Contact Determination, Bounding Volume Hierarchies, Feature-and Volume-Based Algorithms

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Henrik Dohlmann is a Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen and is employed in an industrial collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the School of Dentistry. Jon Sporring received his Master and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science,University of Copenhagen, where he is currently an associate professor. Kenny Erleben is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen.He has contributed to Graphics Programming Methods (CRM 2003). Knud Henriksen is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Copenhagen,where he holds a Ph.D. in computer science.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Charles River Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1584503807
• ISBN 13: 9781584503804
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 817
• Herausgeber: Erleben Kenny
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