Fool me twice: Exploring and exploiting error tolerance in physics-based animation

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yeh, Thomas Y ^a   Reinman, Glenn ^b,d   Patel, Sanjay J ^c,e   Faloutsos, Petros ^b,d  

^a IEnteractive Research and Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Human Factors; Performance

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; ERROR CONTROL; ERROR TOLERANCE; FAST ESTIMATION; HARDWARE OPTIMIZATION; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; ITERATION COUNT; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL; MAXIMUM ERROR; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PERCEPTUAL METRICS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICS SIMULATION; PHYSICS-BASED ANIMATION; PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION; TIME STEP;

ANIMATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; TUNING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77955884922     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1640443.1640448     Document Type: Article

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