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Massive Autonomous Characters: Animation and Interaction

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This article reports the result of an experiment which integrates GPU-accelerated skinning, sprite animation, and character behavior control. The experiment shows that the existing techniques can be neatly integrated: thousands of characters are animated at real-time and the overall motion is natural like fluid. The result is attractive for games, especially where a huge number of non-player characters such as animals or monsters should be animated.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Game Research Center, College of Information and Communications, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Ingu Kang & JungHyun Han

  2. Nexon Co., Ltd.,  

    Ingu Kang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Prem K. Kalra

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel

    Shmuel Peleg

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Kang, I., Han, J. (2006). Massive Autonomous Characters: Animation and Interaction. In: Kalra, P.K., Peleg, S. (eds) Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11949619_30

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11949619_30

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-68301-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-68302-5

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