Computer Animation Algorithms and Techniques

Name: Computer Animation Algorithms and Techniques
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ISBN: 9780124158429

ISBN-10: 0124158420

ISBN-13: 9780124158429

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Rick Parent

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Driven by demand from the entertainment industry for better and more realistic animation, technology continues to evolve and improve. The algorithms and techniques behind this technology are the foundation of this comprehensive book, which is written to teach you the fundamentals of animation programming.In this third edition, the most current techniques are covered along with the theory and high-level computation that have earned the book a reputation as the best technically-oriented animation resource. Key topics such as fluids, hair, and crowd animation have been expanded, and extensive new coverage of clothes and cloth has been added. New material on simulation provides a more diverse…

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List price: $69.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 10/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 542
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.21" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English

Rick Parent is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches computer graphics and computer animation. His research in computer animation focuses on its relation to modeling and animating the human figure, with special emphasis on geometric modeling and implicit surfaces. Rick earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. In 1977, he was awarded "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award" (one of four given nationally) by the NCC. He has served on numerous SIGGRAPH committees, in addition to the Computer Graphics International 2000 Program Committee and the Computer Animation '99 Program…



Preface


About the Author



Introduction



Motion perception



The heritage of animation



Early devices



The early days of "conventional" animation



Disney



Contributions of others



Other media for animation



Animation production



Principles of animation



Principles of filmmaking



Sound



Computer animation production



Computer animation production tasks



Digital editing



Digital video



Digital audio



A brief history of computer animation



Early activity (pre-1980)



The middle years (the 1980s)



Animation comes of age (the mid-1980s and beyond)



Summary



Technical Background



Spaces and transformations



The display pipeline



Homogeneous coordinates and the transformation matrix



Concatenating transformations: multiplying transformation matrices



Basic transformations



Representing an arbitrary orientation



Extracting transformations from a matrix



Description of transformations in the display pipeline



Error considerations



Orientation representation



Fixed-angle representation



Euler angle representation



Angle and axis representation



Quaternion representation



Exponential map representation



Summary



Interpolating Values



Interpolation



The appropriate function



Summary



Controlling the motion of a point along a curve



Computing arc length



Speed control



Ease-in/ease-out



General distance-time functions



Curve fitting to position-time pairs



Interpolation of orientations



Interpolating quaternions



Working with paths



Path following



Orientation along a path



Smoothing a path



Determining a path along a surface



Path finding



Chapter summary



Interpolation-Based Animation



Key-frame systems



Animation languages



Artist-oriented animation languages



Full-featured programming languages for animation



Articulation variables



Graphical languages



Actor-based animation languages



Deforming objects



Picking and pulling



Deforming an embedding space



Three-dimensional shape interpolation



Matching topology



Star-shaped polyhedra



Axial slices



Map to sphere



Recursive subdivision



Morphing (two-dimensional)



Coordinate grid approach



Feature-based morphing



Chapter summary



Kinematic Linkages



Hierarchical modeling



Data structure for hierarchical modeling



Local coordinate frames



Forward kinematics



Inverse kinematics



Solving a simple system by analysis



The Jacobian



Numeric solutions to IK



Summary



Chapter summary



Motion Capture



Motion capture technologies



Processing the images



Camera calibration



Three-dimensional position reconstruction



Multiple markers



Multiple cameras



Fitting to the skeleton



Output from motion capture systems



Manipulating motion capture data



Processing the signals



Retargeting the motion



Combining motions



Chapter summary



Physically Based Animation



Basic physics-a review



Spring-damper pair



Spring animation examples



Flexible objects



Virtual springs



Particle systems



Particle generation



Particle attributes



Particle termination



Particle animation



Particle rendering



Particle system representation



Forces on particles



Particle life span



Rigid body simulation



Bodies in free fall



Bodies in collision



Dynamics of linked hierarchies



Cloth



Direct modeling of folds



Physically based modeling



Enforcing soft and hard constraints



Energy minimization



Space-time constraints



Chapter summary



Fluids: Liquids and Gases



Specific fluid models



Models of water



Modeling and animating clouds



Modeling and animating fire



Summary



Computational fluid dynamics



General approaches to modeling fluids



CFD equations



Grid-based approach



Particle-based approaches including smoothed particle hydrodynamics



Chapter summary



Modeling and Animating Human Figures



Overview of virtual human representation



Representing body geometry



Geometry data acquisition



Geometry deformation



Surface detail



Layered approach to human figure modeling



Reaching and grasping



Modeling the aim



The shoulder joint



The hand



Coordinated movement



Reaching around obstacles



Strength



Walking



The mechanics of locomotion



The kinematics of the walk



Using dynamics to help produce realistic motion



Forward dynamic control



Summary



Coverings



Clothing



Hair



Chapter summary



Facial Animation



The human face



Anatomic structure



The facial action coding system



Facial models



Creating a continuous surface model



Textures



Animating the face



Parameterized models



Blend shapes



Muscle models



Expressions



Summary



Lip-sync animation



Articulators of speech



Phonemes



Coarticulation



Prosody



Chapter summary



Behavioral Animation



Primitive behaviors



Flocking behavior



Prey-predator behavior



Knowledge of the environment



Vision



Memory



Modeling intelligent behavior



Autonomous behavior



Expressions and gestures



Modeling individuality: personality and emotions



Crowds



Crowd behaviors



Internal structure



Crowd control



Managing n-squared complexity



Appearance



Chapter summary



Special Models for Animation



Implicit surfaces



Basic implicit surface formulation



Animation using implicitly defined objects



Collision detection



Deforming the implicit surface as a result of collision



Level set methods



Summary



Plants



A little bit of botany



L-systems



Animating plant growth



Summary



Subdivision surfaces



Chapter summary



Rendering Issues



Background Information and Techniques


Index