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CVGIP
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Physically based rigging for deformable characters
In this paper we introduce a framework for instrumenting (“rigging”) characters that are modeled as dynamic elastic bodies, so that their shapes can be controlled by an animat...
Steve Capell, Matthew Burkhart, Brian Curless, Tom...
TOG
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Accelerometer-based user interfaces for the control of a physically simulated character
In late 2006, Nintendo released a new game controller, the Wiimote, which included a three-axis accelerometer. Since then, a large variety of novel applications for these controll...
Takaaki Shiratori, Jessica K. Hodgins
AIIDE
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling the Dynamics of Non-Player Characters' Social Relations in Video Games
Building credible Non-Playing Characters (NPCs) in games requires not only to enhance the graphic animation but also the behavioral model. This paper tackles the problem of the dy...
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret, Vincent Corruble
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Skinning Characters using Surface Oriented Free-Form Deformations
Skinning geometry effectively continues to be one of the more challenging and time consuming aspects of character setup. While anatomic and physically based approaches to skinning...
Karan Singh, Evangelos Kokkevis
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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14 years 10 days ago
Talking Heads and Synthetic Speech: An Architecture for Supporting Electronic Commerce
Facial animation has been combined with text-to-speech synthesis to create innovative multimodal interfaces. In this paper, we present an architecture for this multimodal interfac...
Jörn Ostermann, David R. Millen