Download or read book New Trends in Animation and Visualization written by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on presentations at a graduate course in scientific visualization in Lausanne, Switzerland, 19 chapters discuss recent advances in computer graphics techniques for animation and visualization, visualization problems and applications, rendering natural phenomena, and computer animation. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book New Trends in Animation and Visualization written by Nadia M. Thalmann and published by . This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computer Animation written by Rick Parent and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to include the most current techniques of computer animation, along with the theory and high-level computation that makes this book the best technically oriented animation resource.
Download or read book An Introductory Guide to Scientific Visualization written by Rae Earnshaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific visualization is concerned with exploring data and information insuch a way as to gain understanding and insight into the data. This is a fundamental objective of much scientific investigation. To achieve this goal, scientific visualization utilises aspects in the areas of computergraphics, user-interface methodology, image processing, system design, and signal processing. This volume is intended for readers new to the field and who require a quick and easy-to-read summary of what scientific visualization is and what it can do. Written in a popular andjournalistic style with many illustrations it will enable readers to appreciate the benefits of scientific visualization and how current tools can be exploited in many application areas. This volume is indispensible for scientists and research workers who have never used computer graphics or other visual tools before, and who wish to find out the benefitsand advantages of the new approaches.
Download or read book New Trends in Software Methodologies Tools and Techniques written by Hamido Fujita and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software is the essential enabler for the new economy and science. It creates new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible, and robust society. It empowers the exploration of our world in ever more depth. However, software often falls short behind our expectations. Current software methodologies, tools and techniques remain expensive and not yet reliable for a highly changeable and evolutionary market. Many approaches have been proven only as case-by-case oriented methods. This book presents a number of new trends and theories in the direction in which we believe software science and engineering may develop to transform the role of software and science in tomorrow's information society. This publication is an attempt to capture the essence of a new state-of-art in software science and its supporting technology. It also aims at identifying the challenges such a technology has to master.
Download or read book Smart Grapics written by Andreas Butz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2003 was held on July 2–4, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. It was the fourth event in a series that started in 1999 as an AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 1999 symposium, its organizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event in2000. WiththesupportofIBM,the?rsttwoInternationalSymposiaonSmart Graphics were held at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. The 2003 symposium was supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and moved to the European Media Lab in Heidelberg, thus underlining the international character of the Smart Graphics enterprise and its community. The core idea behind these symposia is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the ?eld of computer graphics, arti?cial intelligence, cog- tive psychology, and ?ne art. Each of these disciplines contributes to what we mean by the term “Smart Graphics”: the intelligent process of creating expr- sive and esthetic graphical presentations. While artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics for centuries, arti?cial intelligence focuses on automating this process by means of the computer. While computer graphics provides the tools for creating graphical presentations in the ?rst place, cog- tive sciences contribute the rules and models of perception necessary for the design of e?ective graphics. The exchange of ideas between these four discip- nes has led to many exciting and fruitful discussions, and the Smart Graphics Symposia draw their liveliness from a spirit of open minds and the willingness to learn from and share with other disciplines.
Download or read book Modern Geometric Computing for Visualization written by Tosiyasu L. Kunii and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is on "modem geometric computing for visualization" which is at the forefront of multi-disciplinary advanced research areas. This area is attracting intensive research interest across many application fields: singularity in cosmology, turbulence in ocean engineering, high energy physics, molecular dynamics, environmental problems, modem mathe matics, computer graphics, and pattern recognition. Visualization re quires the computation of displayable shapes which are becoming more and more complex in proportion to the complexity of the objects and phenomena visualized. Fast computation requires information locality. Attaining information locality is achieved through characterizing the shapes in geometry and topology, and the large amount of computation required through the use of supercomputers. This volume contains the initial results of our efforts to satisfy these re quirements by inviting experts and selecting new research works through review processes. To be more specific, this book presents the proceedings of the International Workshop on Modem Geometric Computing for Visualization held at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, June 29-30, 1992 organized by the Computer Graphics Society, Japan Personal Com puter Software Association, Kogakuin University, and the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo. We received extremely high-quality papers for review from five different countries, one from Australia, one from Italy, four from Japan, one from Singapore and three from the United States, and we accepted eight papers and rejected two.
Download or read book Course Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Models and Techniques in Computer Animation written by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the invited papers and a selection of research papers submitted to Computer Animation '93, the fifth international workshop on Computer Animation, which was held in Geneva on June 16-18, 1993. This workshop, now an annual event, has been organized by the Computer Graphics Society, the University of Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. During the international workshop on Computer Animation '93, the sixth Computer-generated Film Festival of Geneva, was also held. The volume presents original research results and applications experience to the various areas of computer animation. Most of the contributions are related to motion control, visualization, human animation, and rendering techniques.
Download or read book New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields written by David H. Laidlaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together key researchers in disciplines ranging from visualization and image processing to applications in structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, elastography, and numerical mathematics, the workshop that generated this edited volume was the third in the successful Dagstuhl series. Its aim, reflected in the quality and relevance of the papers presented, was to foster collaboration and fresh lines of inquiry in the analysis and visualization of tensor fields, which offer a concise model for numerous physical phenomena. Despite their utility, there remains a dearth of methods for studying all but the simplest ones, a shortage the workshops aim to address. Documenting the latest progress and open research questions in tensor field analysis, the chapters reflect the excitement and inspiration generated by this latest Dagstuhl workshop, held in July 2009. The topics they address range from applications of the analysis of tensor fields to purer research into their mathematical and analytical properties. They show how cooperation and the sharing of ideas and data between those engaged in pure and applied research can open new vistas in the study of tensor fields.
Download or read book Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design written by Hoang Pham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling. Each chapter is written by active researchers and professionals with international reputations, providing material which bridges the gap between theory and practice to trigger new practices and research challenges. The book therefore provides a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practices.
Download or read book Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects written by Hans-Hellmut Nagel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2000, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in September 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. As the first book devoted to articulated motion and deformable objects, this collection covers the following issues: geometry and physics of deformable objects, motion analyis, articulated motion and animation, visualization of deformable models, 3D-recovery from motion, single or multiple view human motion analysis and synthesis, and applications.
Download or read book Creating and Animating the Virtual World written by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains invited papers and a selection of research papers submitted to Computer Animation '92, the fourth international workshop on computer animation held in Genova on May 20-22, 1992. This workshop, now an annual event, is organized by the Computer Graphics Society, the University of Genova, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Original research results and applications experience to the various areas of computer animation are represented in the book. This year most contributions are related to physics-based animation, human animation, and geometric modelling for animation.
Download or read book Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research written by Jun Yu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of machine learning techniques and cartoon animation research is fast becoming a hot topic. This book helps readers learn the latest machine learning techniques, including patch alignment framework; spectral clustering, graph cuts, and convex relaxation; ensemble manifold learning; multiple kernel learning; multiview subspace learning; and multiview distance metric learning. It then presents the applications of these modern machine learning techniques in cartoon animation research. With these techniques, users can efficiently utilize the cartoon materials to generate animations in areas such as virtual reality, video games, animation films, and sport simulations
Download or read book Focus on Scientific Visualization written by Hans Hagen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the important issues of Scientific Visualization is the utilization of the broad bandwidth of the human sensory system in steering and interpreting complex processes and simulations involving voluminous data sets across diverse scientific disciplines. This book presents the state-of-the-art in visualization techniques both as an overview for the inquiring scientist, and as a solid platform from which developers may extend existing techniques or devise new ones to meet the specific needs of their problems. A secondary goal in crafting this volume has been to provide a vehicle for teaching of state-of-the-art techniques in scientific visualization. The first part of the book covers the application areas fluid flow visualization in medicine, and environmental protection. The second set of chapters explain fundamentals of scientific visualization. It comprises contributions on data structuring and data administration, data modeling, and rendering. A final section is devoted to auditory representation of scientific data.
Download or read book Transactions on Edutainment IV written by Xiaopeng Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-learning and digital entertainment techniques, tools and systems are becoming popular and can be found in many real-world educational applications in many co- tries. The driving force behind these technologies is the rapidly growing requirements of edutainment, especially from the perspective of the users. This has led to the increasing interest of researchers in this area. The articles in this issue give a rich overview of how edutainment technologies can be creatively used for training and education purposes. The first 12 articles of this issue represent a selection of outstanding contributions from Edutainment 2010, the 5th International Conference on E-learning and Games, held in Changchun, China, in August 2010. The main purpose of this event is to faci- tate the discussion, presentation, and information exchange on the scientific and te- nological developments in the emerging field of digital entertainment techniques and systems for education. These 12 papers concentrated on three aspects: e-learning s- tem and applications, game techniques for learning, and virtual reality techniques for entertainment. They are closely related to the topics of this journal.
Download or read book Digital Media The Future written by John Vince and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents state-of-the-art research from a wide area of subjects brought about by the digital convergence of computing, television, telecommunications and the World-Wide Web. It represents a unique snapshot of trends across a wide range of subjects including virtual environments; virtual reality; telepresence; human-computer interface design; interactivity; avatars; and the Internet. Both researchers and practitioners will find it an invaluable source of reference.
