Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control - Hardcover

Badler, Norman I.; Phillips, Cary B.; Webber, Bonnie Lynn

 
9780195073591: Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195073592 ISBN 13: 9780195073591
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

During the past decade, 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 book is intended for human factors engineers interested in understanding how a computer-graphics surrogate human can augment their analyses of designed environments. It will also inform design engineers of the state of the art in human figure modeling, and hence of the human-centered design central to the emergent concept of concurrent engineering. In fulfilling these goals, the book additionally documents for the entire computer graphics community a major research effort in the interactive control of articulated human figures.

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About the Author

Bonnie Lynn Webber is Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

From the Back Cover

During the past decade, 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 book is intended for human factors engineers interested in understanding how a computer-graphics surrogate human can augment their analyses of designed environments. It will also inform design engineers of the state of the art in human figure modeling, and hence of the human-centered design central to the emergent concept of concurrent engineering. In fulfilling these goals, the book additionally documents for the entire computer graphics community a major research effort in the interactive control of articulated human figures.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195073592
ISBN 13 
9780195073591
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288