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Computer Animation Techniques

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Computer animation of three-dimensional objects and figures consists of modeling, rendering, and control problems. This survey discusses the state of the art in motion control of complex, articulated figures. The major approaches to animation control are parametric interpolation schemes, kinetics, inverse kinematics, constraints, dynamics, simulation, and Artificial Intelligence techniques. The particular problems of human figure and character animation and an architecture for task animation are presented. Besides computer graphics animation for its own sake, ergonomics, human factors research and extensions to task level control of multiple figures are target applications.

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    W. Brauer

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    W. Wahlster

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Badler, N.I. (1987). Computer Animation Techniques. In: Brauer, W., Wahlster, W. (eds) Wissensbasierte Systeme. Informatik — Fachberichte, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88719-2_3

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