Artificial Animals for Computer Animation Biomechanics, Locomotion, Perception, and Behavior /

• Main Author: Tu, Xiaoyuan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1635
• Subjects: Computer graphics.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Graphics.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.

After nearly half a century of research, the Holy Grail of the ?eld of art- cial intelligence (AI) remains a comprehensive computational model capable of emulating the marvelous abilities of animals, including locomotion, p- ception, behavior, manipulation, learning, and cognition. The comprehensive...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Functional Anatomy of an Artificial Fish
• Biomechanical Fish Model and Locomotion
• Modeling the Form and Appearance of Fishes
• Perception Modeling
• The Behavior System
• Modeling the Marine Environment
• The Graphical User Interface
• Animation Results
• Conclusion and Future Work
• Epilogue.