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is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, anime (a term derived from a shortening of the English word animation) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and niche audiences. Anime is a

“Store-Age”, stockage vertical pour l'E-commerce (New York)

Iakovos Papaioannou

Le flux des travailleurs et touristes anime New York dans une danse sans fin. A ce spectacle se joignent d'importants flux de marchandises, de nourritures, de matériaux nécessaires au fonctionnement de la ville. Les contraintes environnementales et l'impatience des clients d'un monde qui s'accélère, ont provoqué le retour des centres logistiques au centre de la ville. Tel un cœur pompant, puis redistribuant nos biens de consommation, le projet participe au ballet des marchandises. Situé dans un quartier historiquement lié aux flux marchands de la “High Line”, le projet propose un stockage pour les magasins de l'ère internet: l'E-commerce. Faisant fi de la lumière, ce programme particulier forme le noyau d'un gratte-ciel et suspend des plateaux au contact de la lumière. Actuellement, l'impact de l'E-commerce génère de plus en plus d'allers-retours de camions vers les grands centres de stockage loin des villes. Le stockage intègre les nouvelles technologies d'entreposage automatisé qui permettent la construction d'un stockage innovant vertical: un “silo de stockage” urbain desservi par les chemins de fer. Une passerelle lie le projet avec la promenade de la “High Line” qui poursuit son parcours à travers les espaces publics de la tour. Cette connexion fait interagir l'ancienne infrastructure de marchandises avec sa version contemporaine. Le gratte-ciel dévoile petit à petit son noyau souverain contenant le stockage, intégrant dans la “skyline” cet acteur si peu reconnu.

2017

3D modeling of the human upper limb including the biomechanics of joints, muscles and soft tissues

The challenge in virtual human modeling is to achieve the representation of the main human characteristics with as much realism as possible. Such achievements would allow the simulation and/or analysis of many virtual situations involving humans. Simulation is especially useful to derive information from the models so as to predict and/or reproduce the behaviors that would be observed in real situations. Computer methods in visualization and simulation have thus great potential for advances in medicine. The processes of strength generation and motion coordination are some of these phenomena for which there is still much remaining to be understood. The human shoulder is also probably the articulation of the human body which deserves more than any other to be named "terra incognita". Investigations towards the biomechanical modeling and simulation of the human upper limb are therefore presented in this study. It includes thorough investigation into the musculoskeletal anatomy and biomechanics of the human upper limb, into the biomechanical constitutive modeling of muscles and soft tissues, and into the nonlinear continuum mechanics and numerical methods, especially the incremental finite element methods, necessary for their simulation. On this basis, a 3-D biomechanical musculoskeletal human upper limb model has been designed using the Visible Human Data provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and applied to the dynamic musculoskeletal simulation of the human upper limb. This research has been achieved in the context of the EU ESPRIT Project CHARM, whose objective has been to develop a comprehensive human animation resource database and a set of software tools allowing the modeling of the human complex musculoskeletal system and the simulation of its dynamics, including the finite element simulation of soft tissue deformation and muscular contraction. An investigation towards the application of this knowledge for the realistic modeling and animation of the upper limb in computer animation is then presented. The anatomical and biomechanical modeling of the scapulo-thoracic constraint and the shoulder joint sinus cones are proposed and applied to the realistic animation, using inverse kinematics, of a virtual skeleton and an anatomic musculoskeletal body model.

EPFL1999

Generation of object-oriented programs from CO-OPN specifications

Stanislav Chachkov

The execution of formal specifications is important for verification, validation and animation purposes. This thesis describes transformation of CO-OPN specifications in executable code. The original goal of this transformation was validation by prototyping, but animation and, partially, verification also became interesting goals during the development. The work was already done to study the transformation of CO-OPN specifications to Prolog programs [18], to ADA programs [37] and even to Java programs [57]. Nevertheless the only implemented technique was the transformation to Prolog. Starting with those results, we designed and implemented the automatic transformation of CO-OPN specifications to Java programs. The main contributions of this work are: Definition and implementation of CO-OPN state and execution models. Study and implementation of various methods to integrate generated code with external systems. Implementation of an extensible code generator. This thesis first gives a brief introduction to CO-OPN language, then describes main principles that govern the transformation of CO-OPN to executable code. This explanation is logically divided in three parts, corresponding to main CO-OPN entities: generation of Abstract Data Types, Classes and Contexts. Then the architecture of code generation engine is presented. Finally, integration of generated code is illustrated by comprehensive examples.

EPFL2004

3D modeling of the human upper limb including the biomechanics of joints, muscles and soft tissues

EPFL1999