Making Them Move Mechanics, Control & Animation of Articulated Figures [Paperback]

Current computer graphics hardware and software make it possible to synthesize near photo-realistic images, but the simulation of natural-looking motion of articulated figures remains a difficult
and challenging task. Skillfully rendered animation of humans, animals, and robots can delight and move us, but simulating their realistic motion holds great promise for many other applications as well, including ergonomic engineering design, clinical diagnosis of pathological movements, rehabilitation therapy, and biomechanics.

Making Them Movepresents the work of leading researchers in computer graphics, psychology, robotics and mechanical engineering who were invited to attend the Workshop on the Mechanics, Control and Animation of Articulated
Figures held at the MIT Media Lab in April 1989. The book explores biological and robotic motor control, as well as state-of-the-art computer
graphics techniques for simulating human and animal figures in a natural and physically realistic manner.Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures

Edited by Norman I. Badler, Brian A. Barsky, and David Zeltzer


PART ONE -- INTERACTING WITH ARTICULATED FIGURES

Chapter 1 Task-level Graphical Simulation: Abstraction, Representation, and Control David Zeltzer

Chapter 2 Composition of Realistic Animation Sequences for Multiple Human Figures Tom Calvert

Chapter 3 Animation from Instructions Norman I. Badler, Bonnie L. Webber, Jugal Kalita, and Jeffrey Esakov


PART TWO -- ARTIFICIAL AND BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS FOR MOTOR CONTROL

ARTIFICIAL MOTOR PROGRAMS

Chapter 4 A Robot that Wl™