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A vision-based approach to behavioural animation

An innovative way of animating actors at a high level based on the concept of synthetic vision is presented. The objective is simple: to create an animation involving a synthetic actor automatically moving in a corridor avoiding objects and other synthetic ...

1990

An object-orient methodology using dynamic variables for animation and scientific visualization

Daniel Thalmann

An object-oriented design is presented for building dynamic three-dimensional applications. This design takes the form of the Fifth Dimension Toolkit consisting of a set of interrelated classes whose instances may be connected together in a variety of ways ...

Springer-Verlag1990

Synthetic actors: the simulation of human motion

Daniel Thalmann

Advances in computer animation are more apparent with the explosion in satellite television. This feature explores the concept of synthetic actors, a combination of diverse methods of computerised animation. The boom in satellite broadcasting and the proli ...

1989

Design, transformation and animation of human faces

Daniel Thalmann

Creation of new human faces for synthetic actors is a difficult task. The situation may be improved by introducing tools for the creation. Three approaches are discussed: modification and edition of an existing synthetic actor using local transformations; ...

1989

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