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To grab or not to grab: a viable framework for physically based hand animation in game characters

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Future Play '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share

Pages 254 - 255

https://doi.org/10.1145/1496984.1497039

Published: 03 November 2008 Publication History

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In games, grasping or haptic interaction with game world objects is underplayed and still relies on stored animation. With the advent of powerful Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and physics middleware, it is possible to explore the dynamic aspects of grasping. In the real-time scenario of games, scope exists for procedural controller systems, which when coupled with AI and physics simulation, would allow the birth of not only autonomous game characters with the ability to interact with the game world realistically, but also to bring about new types of game play. This paper is a brief look into an ongoing research, proposing to conceptualize and create a new AI augmented real-time physically based controller system for hand animation.

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To grab or not to grab: a viable framework for physically based hand animation in game characters
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
      1. External interfaces for robotics
      2. Robotic components
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Control methods
      1. Motion path planning
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
    2. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality

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Future Play '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share

November 2008

297 pages

ISBN:9781605582184

DOI:10.1145/1496984

Conference Chairs:
Bill Kapralos
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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Mike Katchabaw
University of Western Ontario
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Jay Rajnovich
Algoma University

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