The last few years have seen great maturation in the computation speed and control methods needed to portray 3D virtual humans suitable for real interactive applications. We first describe the state of the art, then focus on the particular approach taken at the University of Pennsylvania with the Jack system. Various aspects of real-time virtual humans are considered such as appearance and motion, interactive control, autonomous action, gesture, attention, locomotion, and multiple individuals. The underlying architecture consists of a sense-control-act structure that permits reactive behaviors to be locally adaptive to the environment, and a "PaT-Net" parallel finite-state machine controller that can be used to drive virtual humans through complex tasks. Finally, we argue for a deep connection between language and animation and describe current effects in linking them through the JacMOO extension to lambdaMOO.


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    Title :

    Virtual humans for animation, ergonomics, and simulation


    Contributors:
    Badler, N. (author)


    Publication date :

    1997-01-01


    Size :

    1110957 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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