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- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers announces a new title in its Series in
- Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, edited by Brian A. Barsky
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- MAKING THEM MOVE
- Mechanics, Control and Animation of Articulated Figures
- (Book and Video Package)
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- Edited by
- Norman I. Badler (University of Pennsylvania)
- Brian A. Barsky (University of California at Berkeley) and
- David Zeltzer (Media Lab, MIT)
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- Current computer graphics hardware and software make it possible
- to synthesize near photo-realistic images, but the simulation of
- natural-looking motion of articulated figures remains a difficult
- and challenging task. Skillfully rendered animation of humans,
- animals and robots can delight and move us, but simulating their
- realistic motion holds great promise for many other applications
- as well, including ergonomic engineering design, clinical diagnosis
- of pathological movements, rehabilitation therapy, and
- biomechanics.
-
- "Making Them Move" is a unique book/video package that presents the
- work of leading researchers in computer graphics, psychology,
- robotics and mechanical engineering who were invited to attend the
- Workshop on the Mechanics, Control and Animation of Articulated
- Figures held at the MIT Media Lab. The book explores biological
- and robotic motor control, as well as state-of-the-art computer
- graphics techniques for simulating human and animal figures in a
- natural and physically realistic manner. The accompanying video
- tape includes selected animation sequences demonstrating these
- techniques.
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- ISBN
- Book/Video Package: 1-55860-155-4
- Book only: 1-55860-106-6
- Tape only: 1-55860-154-6
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- Book: 348 pages, hardbound
- Video: Approx. 1 hour, all formats available
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- Price (Ordering information follows tables of contents below):
- Package: $69.95 (VHS, NTSC OR PAL)
- Book only: $46.95
- Tape only: $29.95 (VHS, NTSC OR PAL)
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- Book Table of Contents
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- PART ONE -- INTERACTING WITH ARTICULATED FIGURES
- Chapter 1 Task-level Graphical Simulation: Abstraction,
- Representation, and Control
- David Zeltzer
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- Chapter 2 Composition of Realistic Animation Sequences for
- Multiple Human Figures
- Tom Calvert
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- Chapter 3 Animation from Instructions
- Norman I. Badler, Bonnie L. Webber, Jugal
- Kalita, and Jeffrey Esakov
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- PART TWO -- ARTIFICIAL AND BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS FOR MOTOR CONTROL
- ARTIFICIAL MOTOR PROGRAMS
- Chapter 4 A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behaviors from a
- Carefully Evolved Network
- Rodney A. Brooks
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- BIOLOGICAL MOTOR PROGRAMS
- Chapter 5 Sensory Elements in Pattern-Generating Networks
- K.G. Pearson
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- Chapter 6 Motor Programs as Units of Movement Control
- Douglas E. Young and Richard A. Schmidt
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- Chapter 7 Dynamics and Task-specific Coordinations
- M.T. Turvey, Elliot Saltzman, and R.C. Schmidt
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- Chapter 8 Dynamic Pattern Generation and Recognition
- J.A.S. Kelso and A.S. Pandya
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- LEARNING MOTOR PROGRAMS
- Chapter 9 A Computer System for Movement Schemas
- Peter H. Greene and Dan Solomon
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- PART THREE -- MOTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS
- Chapter 10 Constrained Optimization of Articulated Animal
- Movement in Computer Animation
- Michael Girard
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- Chapter 11 Goal-directed Animation of Tubular Articulated
- Figures or How Snakes Play Golf
- Gavin Miller
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- Chapter 12 Human Body Deformations Using Joint-dependent Local
- Operators and Finite-Element Theory
- Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann
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- PART FOUR -- COMPUTING THE DYNAMICS OF MOTION
- Chapter 13 Dynamic Experiences
- Jane Wilhelms
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- Chapter 14 Using Dynamics in Computer Animation: Control and
- Solution Issues
- Mark Green
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- Chapter 15 Teleological Modeling
- Alan H. Barr
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- Appendix A: Video Notes
- Appendix B: About the Authors
- Index
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- VIDEOTAPE
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- This videotape contains selected animation sequences illustrating
- techniques discussed in the book. The total running time is
- approximately one hour. An appendix in the book entitled Video
- Notes includes commentary on some of the animations.
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- Selections:
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- David Zeltzer and others (MIT Media Lab): The BOLIO Virtual
- Environment System.
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- Norman Badler and others (Univ. of Pennsylvania): Strength-
- Guided Motion and Task Animation From Natural Language
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- Tom Calvert and others (Simon Fraser University): Compose and
- Goal-Directed Dynamic Animation of Human Walking
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- Rodney Brooks and others (MIT): Genghis: A Six-Legged Walking
- Robot
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- Michael Girard and Susan Amkraut (Stichting Computeranimatie):
- Eurythmy
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- Gavin Miller (Apple Computer): How Snakes Play Golf and Her
- Majesty's Secret Serpent
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- Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva) and David
- Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology): Galaxy
- Sweetheart
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- Jane Wilhelms (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) and David
- Forsey (Univ. of Waterloo): Interactive Dynamics
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- Ordering Information:
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- additional.
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- county.
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