Computer Animation · Algorithms and Techniques by Parent, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title page Copyright Dedication Preface

Overview Organization of the Book Acknowledgments

About the Author Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Motion perception 1.2 The heritage of animation 1.3 Animation production 1.4 Computer animation production 1.5 A brief history of computer animation 1.6 Summary References

Chapter 2. Technical Background

2.1 Spaces and transformations 2.2 Orientation representation 2.3 Summary References

Chapter 3. Interpolating Values

3.1 Interpolation 3.2 Controlling the motion of a point along a curve 3.3 Interpolation of orientations 3.4 Working with paths 3.5 Chapter summary References

Chapter 4. Interpolation-Based Animation

4.1 Key-frame systems 4.2 Animation languages 4.3 Deforming objects 4.4 Three-dimensional shape interpolation 4.5 Morphing (two-dimensional) 4.6 Chapter summary References

Chapter 5. Kinematic Linkages

5.1 Hierarchical modeling 5.2 Forward kinematics 5.3 Inverse kinematics 5.4 Chapter summary References

Chapter 6. Motion Capture

6.1 Motion capture technologies 6.2 Processing the images 6.3 Camera calibration 6.4 Three-dimensional position reconstruction 6.5 Fitting to the skeleton 6.6 Output from motion capture systems 6.7 Manipulating motion capture data 6.8 Chapter summary References

Chapter 7. Physically Based Animation

7.1 Basic physics—a review 7.2 Spring animation examples 7.3 Particle systems 7.4 Rigid body simulation 7.5 Cloth 7.6 Enforcing soft and hard constraints 7.7 Chapter summary References

Chapter 8. Fluids: Liquids and Gases

8.1 Specific fluid models 8.2 Computational fluid dynamics 8.3 Chapter summary References

Chapter 9. Modeling and Animating Human Figures

9.1 Overview of virtual human representation 9.2 Reaching and grasping 9.3 Walking 9.4 Coverings 9.5 Chapter summary References

Chapter 10. Facial Animation

10.1 The human face 10.2 Facial models 10.3 Animating the face 10.4 Lip-sync animation 10.5 Chapter summary References

Chapter 11. Behavioral Animation

11.1 Primitive behaviors 11.2 Knowledge of the environment 11.3 Modeling intelligent behavior 11.4 Crowds 11.6 Chapter summary References

Chapter 12. Special Models for Animation

12.1 Implicit surfaces 12.2 Plants 12.3 Subdivision surfaces 12.4 Chapter summary References

APPENDIX A: Rendering Issues APPENDIX B: Background Information and Techniques

B.1 Vectors and matrices B.2 Geometric computations B.3 Transformations B.4 Denevit and Hartenberg representation for linked appendages B.5 Interpolating and approximating curves B.6 Randomness B.7 Physics primer B.8 Numerical integration techniques B.9 Optimization B.10 Standards for moving pictures B.11 Camera calibration

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