Computer Animation and Simulation ’96

1. Adaptive Optimization Techniques.- Incremental Update of the Visibility Map as Seen by a Moving Viewpoint in Two Dimensions.- Adaptive Sampling of Very Large Particle Systems Using an Incremental Self- Organizing Feature Map: an Application in Molecular Dynamic.- Adaptive Refinement for Mass/Spring Simulations.- 2. Animation of Deformable Objects.- A Fire Model for 2-D Computer Animation.- Smoothed Particles: a New Paradigm for Animating Highly Deformable Bodies.- 3. Human Motion Capture and Simulation.- A Real Time Anatomical Converter for Human Motion Capture.- A High Level Control Mechanism for Human Locomotion Based on Parametric Frame Space Interpolation.- Simulating Human Movements Using Optimal Control.- A Biomechanical Musculoskeletal Model of Human Upper Limb for Dynamic Simulation.- 4. Plant Development.- Interactive Modelling and Animation of Branching Botanical Structures.- An Efficient Estimation of Light in Simulation of Plant Development.- 5. Motion Control and Motion Management.- A Planning Algorithm for Dynamic Motions.- Plausible Motion Simulation for Computer Animation.- Motion Synthesis by Example.- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.