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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827386203321

Autore

Badler Norman I.

Titolo

Simulating humans : computer graphics animation and control / / Norman I. Badler, Cary B. Phillips, Bonnie Lynn Webber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

0-19-756027-X

1-280-44147-X

9786610441471

0-19-536086-9

1-60129-867-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

620.8/2

Soggetti

Human engineering

Human body - Computer simulation

Virtual reality

Human mechanics - Computer simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction and Historical Background; 2 Body Modeling; 3 Spatial Interaction; 4 Behavioral Control; 5 Simulation with Societies of Behaviors; 6 Task-Level Specifications; 7 Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During past decades, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains. Among the most dramatic developments has been the incorporation of real-time interactive manipulation and display for human figures. Though actively pursued by several research groups, the problem of providing a synthetic or surrogate human for engineers and designers already familiar with computer-aided design techniques was most comprehensively solved by Norman Badler's computer graphics laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. The breadth of that effort as well as the details of its methodology and software environment are presented in this volume. The text is intended for human factors



engineers interested in understanding how a computer-graphics surrogate human can augment their analyses of designed environments.