Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control & Animation of Articulated Figures (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling (Hardcover)) - Softcover

Barsky, Brian; Zeltzer, David; Badler, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558601066 ISBN 13: 9781558601062

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

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 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 in April 1989. 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.

About this title

About the Author

Norman Badler, Brian Barsky, David Zeltzer

From the Back Cover

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 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 in April 1989. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558601066
• ISBN 13: 9781558601062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364