The virtual stuntman: Dynamic characters with a repertoire of autonomous motor skills

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 933-953

  Faloutsos, Petros ^a   Van De Panne, Michiel ^b,e   Terzopoulos, Demetri ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Motion Playground Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Character animation; Computer animation; Physics based animation control; Physics based modeling; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHARACTER ANIMATION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0035578069     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(01)00171-6     Document Type: Article

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