Table of Contents

1. Motion Capture and Control.- Markerless Motion Capture of Complex Full-Body Movement for Character Animation.- Implementation of a 3D Virtual Drummer.- 2. Deformations for Animation.- Animating with the “Multidimensional deformation tool”.- Mixing Triangle Meshes and Implicit Surfaces in Character Animation.- 3. Natural Phenomena.- Visual Simulation of Smoke and Fire.- Phenomenological Simulation of Brooks.- An interactive forest.- Meshes on Fire.- 4. Physically-based Animation.- Continuous deformation energy for Dynamic Material Splines subject to finite displacements.- Deformed Distance Fields for Simulation of Non-Penetrating Flexible Bodies.- Real-Time Simulation of Deformation and Fracture of Stiff Materials.- 5. Hair Animation.- A Simple Physics Model to Animate Human Hair Modeled in 2D Strips in Real Time.- A Layered Wisp Model for Simulating Interactions inside Long Hair.- 6. High Level Motion Planning.- Efficient Multi-Agent Path Planning.- Crowd simulation for interactive virtual environments and VR training systems.- The Orchestration of Behaviours using Resources and Priority Levels.- Evolution and Cooperation of Virtual Entities with Classifier Systems.- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.