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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during June 14-17, 2008, in collaboration with the NLGD Festival of Games. The 24 revised papers presented during the workshop cover topics on crowd simulation; virtual humans; motion synthesis; interfaces; navigation and steering; and facial and behavioral animation.

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Author:   Arjan Egges ,  Arno Kamphuis ,  Mark Overmars
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2008 ed.
Volume:   5277
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783540892199

ISBN 10:   3540892192
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   19 November 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Crowd Simulation.- Texture Synthesis Based Simulation of Secondary Agents.- Using the Corridor Map Method for Path Planning for a Large Number of Characters.- Real-Time Path Planning and Navigation for Multi-agent and Crowd Simulations.- Populate Your Game Scene.- Hierarchical Path Planning for Virtual Crowds.- Virtual Humans.- Towards Embodied and Situated Virtual Humans.- Adaptive Body, Motion and Cloth.- From Motion Capture to Real-Time Character Animation.- Motion Synthesis.- More Motion Capture in Games — Can We Make Example-Based Approaches Scale?.- Simulating Interactions of Characters.- Motion Prediction for Online Gaming.- Two-Character Motion Control: Challenge and Promise.- Motion Modeling: Can We Get Rid of Motion Capture?.- Informed Use of Motion Synthesis Methods.- Automatic Estimation of Skeletal Motion from Optical Motion Capture Data.- Interfaces.- An Immersive Motion Interface with Edutainment Contents for Elderly People.- Design of Experience and Flow in Movement-Based Interaction.- Navigation and Steering.- Relaxed Steering towards Oriented Region Goals.- Opening Doors in Motion Analysis Research.- Watch Out! A Framework for Evaluating Steering Behaviors.- Whole-Body Locomotion, Manipulation and Reaching for Humanoids.- Facial and Behavioral Animation.- Conveying Emotions through Facially Animated Avatars in Networked Virtual Environments.- Animating Speech in Games.- Autonomous Digital Actors.

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