Composable controllers for physics-based character animation

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 251-260

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Motion Playground Inc   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

character animation; computer animation; physics based animation control; physics based modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904109966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/383259.383287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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